Bill C-11 committee  If I could interrupt, I should also add that on top of these funds, we also spend $50 million as an industry on development. That's going to the point about spending on development. That's over and above what we've already talked about.

Bill C-11 committee  The tariffs are put before the Copyright Board and the board makes a determination. What's happened is that as the new rights have been introduced, they've been layered on top of the existing fees. The problem with the tariffs is they're a percentage of revenue, so that as our re

Bill C-11 committee  That's correct. The spirit of the act was discussed earlier. The mechanical right, which we supported as an industry, was introduced to help combat piracy. At the time—it may have actually been in this room—when we said there may be a problem because they're going to charge the

Bill C-11 committee  It's a fee that's set by the board as a result of these multi-layered tariffs.

Bill C-11 committee  If there were a negotiation, the system would probably be more efficient. Corus and the radio industry are immensely and massively supportive of artists in Canada. We do a lot. The question I put to this committee is that there are hundreds of millions of dollars going into the s

Bill C-11 committee  We had a very interesting exposition on that in the panel before us. The gentleman from ole kind of made the off-hand comment about where the money goes. He started by saying that he pays out 75% of the money he gets. The other way to look at it is to say he takes 25% right off t

Bill C-11 committee  Yes. Going to the question of international, in the United States radio stations don't pay this. A Canadian artist is not going to get anything from the U.S. Effectively, Canadians are paying for something that people in other countries don't, so this notion about internationali

Bill C-11 committee  Yes. Mr. Angus used probably the perfect word for this debate, and that is balance. When we see these tariffs increasing by an amount of 483% against our revenue growth of 40%, something's got to give. The problem we have is that this structure that we put in place over the las

Bill C-11 committee  Of course we play it for longer than 30 days. It's important to also think of the download of that music in the same context as you might an iTunes context. When we bring the music down from the service that's provided to us by the studio—which incidentally saves them the cost o

Bill C-11 committee  That's the other thing that was mentioned earlier. We don't stop. We have two, three, four, or five songs coming in every day. Our music people for each radio station look at the big pool of music and they say “I need this one, I need that one, and I need that one”, but they als

Bill C-11 committee  In this context, Corus creates a significant amount of content and is therefore concerned with the protection of our proprietary works. We know about copyright and we are invested in ensuring the laws make sense for creators and for users. We believe it is important that the memb

Bill C-11 committee  Maavara.

Bill C-11 committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of this special legislative committee. My name is Gary Maavara, and I'm executive vice-president and general counsel at Corus Entertainment. With me today is Sylvie Courtemanche, who is our vice-president of government relations. Sylvie is

Canadian Heritage committee  I guess I should declare a conflict. We operate three CBC affiliate stations in Peterborough, Kingston, and Oshawa, and we're really proud of the contribution we make to the local community with those things. We are currently working with the CBC on renewing that affiliation. Ou

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a really important question. I'm proud to say that Corus was the first radio company on iTunes; we stream all of our stations through iTunes. If you have an iPad, or any of those other devices, you can hear your stations anywhere. Radio is a really interesting one for u