Canadian Heritage committee  Income averaging or something has been proposed in Quebec, which I'm not....

Canadian Heritage committee  Some provinces do have provincial status of the artist legislation, but none include collective bargaining, or perhaps only one does. They're able to do other things, but they don't have the teeth that this one has. It would be really great to have something very comparable at th

Canadian Heritage committee  A friend, who is an actress, said that you never know what kind of year you're going to have. You may have a really great year, like Mr. Michael or Ms. Roy are having, but you don't know what's going to happen a year or two or 10 from now. The lack of a social safety net that i

Canadian Heritage committee  For a while, we also talked about collective bargaining training. Most of us have never been through that and don't have the support of the big unions, either. In terms of grievances.... This is a small one, but it also goes back to a previous question that was asked about how l

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, there's a growing list. There are over 90 countries around the world. A couple of them added it recently. Korea is one of them, and New Zealand implemented it through a recent trade deal with the U.K. It's not new. It's not something that we created as an idea. It's been a

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. There are copyright collectives. We have found in other countries that it is the easiest thing to administer and implement when there is collective management. We recommend Copyright Visual Arts, but there are others as well.

Canadian Heritage committee  Every country does it differently. In the U.K., they distribute payments every month. In most countries, they usually collect sales information on a quarterly or an annual basis. It depends on how rigorous you want to be.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's $1,000 in Australia. It's 1,000 euros in Europe. We had a look at various case studies of Canadian artists and what it would mean if it were higher or lower, and it seemed that it was a good point to make it worth the administration of sending it out and the amount of the ro

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members, for this opportunity to speak with you today. I'm April Britski, and I'm the national director of CARFAC, which is a membership association for professional visual artists. We have a long history of advocating for artists' labour right

Industry committee  Part of the problem is that when the work is sold in the primary market, the artist isn't told whom it goes to, for the most part. They don't tell you that.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  No, not necessarily. In some countries, the collective does get it; in some cases it goes toward pension plans for artists, and in some cases it goes toward an art purchase program. In the U.K., it goes back to the auction house and the dealer, actually, if they can't find them a

Industry committee  Essentially, 5% is the standard in most countries. In Europe, there is a sliding scale, and it's based on the value of the work. For the most part, most Canadian artworks fall within the 4% to 5% range. It is basically the standard. Even though the bill that was presented said t

Industry committee  Yes. Interestingly enough, that's where the resale rates started. A famous artist's family was living in poverty while his pieces were selling for far more than they did during his lifetime, so it started with estates. Of course, we are primarily concerned with living artists,

Industry committee  When you're asking if it needs to be registered in order to collect it, I think that would be—