Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Our second point is that funding mechanisms must keep pace with changing market realities. All licensed broadcasting undertakings have a responsibility to support Canadian programming as part of their regulatory covenant, a stated objective of the Broadcasting Act. Th

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. In our view, the real issue is not the public broadcaster's mandate per se but rather the way in which CBC/Radio-Canada interprets and implements that mandate. We have seen over the past decade that even though the public broadcaster's mandate has not changed, the i

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't speak directly to their specific programming strategies for their local programming on their international platforms, but what I can tell you is that through their charter they have identified those services that are going to have commercial activities and those services

Industry committee  We remit, as part of our remittances to the various collectives, the song list. It's captured through software that we use at the broadcast level. How it's then reallocated amongst the rights holders within the collective is not something we have any view into. That's something t

Industry committee  Just to clarify, in terms of increasing revenues, radio has experienced four years of consecutive revenue declines. I think that may be also a miscommunication in terms of our—

Industry committee  It would be my pleasure.

Industry committee  I would just add that we already have a unique system here in Canada compared to the U.S., in the sense that radio broadcasters in the U.S. don't pay this tariff. Canadian broadcasters are actually paying multinational record companies for rights that aren't even recognized in th

Industry committee  We don't have any statistics to provide you at this time, but we can provide you with an analysis of our programming expenses. I should note that overall, around 78% of radio's revenue goes to expenses. That would include programming production, technical, sales promotion and g

Industry committee  Absolutely. There would be a clear disparity there, in terms of the Detroit radio stations broadcasting into Windsor. They would not be paying neighbouring rights or performance rights to the artists for the music they play on the radio. Canadian broadcasters do pay that to artis

Industry committee  Certainly I think that has been an ongoing challenge with border stations. That isn't exclusive to copyright; it's a matter of having a different regulatory regime in place in the Canadian market than you have in the U.S. market. There are certain operational costs associated wit

Industry committee  It would be the same in the English market. We should note, too, that as part of our regulatory requirements, we direct a portion of our revenues to a C and C radio association.

Industry committee  We pay SOCAN, Re:Sound, CONNECT, Artisti and SODRAC.

Industry committee  It's on an individual market basis.

Industry committee  With regard to the particular Re:Sound tariff, they wouldn't. If their revenues are under $1.25 million, they'd only pay $100.

Industry committee  I'll defer to my colleague from Stingray, but my understanding is that Internet radio broadcasters do pay copyright. They would be required to pay copyright.