It's a difficult position to be in because the campus and community radio sector strongly supports Canadian artists, particularly new and emerging artists, so we don't want to be in a position of taking money away from them. However, at the same time, non-profit stations just don't have any more money. Even if it were eminently fair to provide an increase in payment to those artists, the stations don't have the money to give to them. We're in a difficult position, then, because we have to kind of argue both things at the same time: that the artists should be properly compensated and that we can't afford to pay any more.
On September 24th, 2018. See this statement in context.