Mr. Speaker, CD sales are plummeting, although people are still listening to music. The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage passed a Bloc Québécois motion to authorize the collection of royalties on the purchase of devices like iPods in order to compensate artists for their creative work. The Minister of Industry called such royalties “totally inappropriate”, although they have existed in the Copyright Act since 1997, particularly for blank CDs.
What does the industry minister propose to prevent artists from being deprived of their creative revenues?