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Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee And with how much of it can be accomplished in permissions. As I say, we issue hundreds of permissions a year--some of them are people's dances; some of them are churches; some of them are movies. It's not complex; it's actually courteous.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt
Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee I would say that it's time for consensus-building. We all have to be mature adults and accept that it's not going to be perfect. There are allowances in the system to continue to tweak and fine-tune things. But there must be a phase of consensus-building to move this along to whe
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt
Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee That's exactly the sentiment. Speaking as someone who has a private enterprise and who is not just a widget but also the owner and manager of a little company, sometimes you have to make tough decisions. You have to say, “I'm not going to win everything this time, but I need to
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt
Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee I think it's the unequivocal protection for the creator's work. The default position should be to the creator. That really is the main principle, as I said in my opening remarks.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt
Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee I must say, as an artist sitting here, and as a taxpayer, I find it incredibly demoralizing to feel that this is one more issue in our society that is bounced around through politics. I used the word “dire”. We all used the word “urgency”. If this should be delayed any further
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt
Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee My feeling is that once a bill is established and the public is educated in what it's set out to do, most Canadians seek to be law-abiding. I think that, as my colleagues suggest, one must set out penalties in such a way so that those who are driving for commercial interests are
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt
Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee I think also it must be borne in mind that it takes time to do this process and that with the speed that digital information travels now, you can incur an incredible amount of damage without having a swifter and more severe remedy. I think it also goes back to the default that th
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt
Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee Thank you for the opportunity to meet with you this morning. I would like to restrict my comments to four points. First, I would like to commend this government for the bill they have presented. I believe with few exceptions they have identified and achieved the main principl
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt
Canadian Heritage committee Moreover, there are many fewer CD retail stores, and this is also a domino effect of the whole collective environment that everyone is working in. On the whole, my constituency prefers to purchase their music in CD form because they like to sit with the liner notes and so on. Th
April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt
Canadian Heritage committee From my perspective, as with many kinds of battles, they need to be addressed from a variety of directions at the same time. I think the very first step is a legislative step that does protect intellectual property. But there are a lot of other tasks and sub-battles to go on. J
April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt
Canadian Heritage committee I'd like to thank the committee for the opportunity to appear today, and to acknowledge the daunting task facing its members as it makes its way through this process. As some of you may know, I am a singer-composer and the sole owner of my one-artist record label, Quinlan Road
April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Loreena McKennitt