We've been in discussions with officials, as I mentioned before, at the Canada Council for the Arts and also Canadian Heritage. They are interested in what we're doing because at Canadian Heritage, in fact, they were planning to do some research on their own.
What we would like to do, and if this committee could support us, is to have this work on a possible regulation and so on, which could be developed in conjunction with the indigenous artist community and support our full participation and inclusion in that work. My purpose coming here today....
I'm not speaking on behalf of an organization. I can't. I speak for myself, but I know the sentiments of what our people are talking about.
The Copyright Act is before you now. There are going to be amendments to the Copyright Act. If you're going to include an amendment for an artist's resale right, I wanted to say to leave it open enough so that it won't be just limited to the sale of art through auction or galleries. Enable this new technology to come into play and be used as well, so that there can also be direct sale between artists and sellers and the resale right would apply in that circumstance as well.