Canadian Heritage committee  The money in my pocket that I make from this for session recordings is probably 5% to 10% of what I make in a year. I'm just guessing; I'm not sure. There's an important point I would like to make about the new digital forms of media. You don't need any money to infiltrate the r

Canadian Heritage committee  If you don't have any money to make the music, there is no music to promote.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think some of the artists you just mentioned, the people who break through from the ground up and gain success.... A few of the artists on the label I run who have gained some success internationally at this point could potentially apply to FACTOR and potentially get some fundi

Canadian Heritage committee  Personally, I haven't directly received a lot of these grants. My first one was in 2000. I can't actually remember the specific amount, but I think it was around $15,000. Because of the success of how that grant helped that particular project, I didn't need to rely on this grant

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I don't know anyone who was consulted, nobody. I don't know one person in the music industry who was consulted.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the three people who were consulted are obviously far away from anything to do with creative music or real music at all, and they were--

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't really understand that.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's going to the same people who last year received $8.5 million for their record companies. I have a list here of them all, and they are all commercial record companies. A few of them venture into artistic areas within musical creation, but from what I can see, the sole purpose

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, their recordings already make money, and they don't need that money.

Canadian Heritage committee  Nothing. There's FACTOR, and basically you have to streamline your musical creation in order to fulfill their guidelines. FACTOR likes to say they don't discriminate against musical genre or creation, but as far as I'm concerned, they do drastically.

Canadian Heritage committee  I've worked a great deal within the contemporary commercial music industry, and I now spend most of my time composing, performing, and promoting creative forms of music. I'm a two-time Juno Award-winning musician, multi Western Canadian Music Award-winning musician, and three-tim