Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Mr. Fast, for me personally, as somebody who runs a museum, if I were to say, “This is going to be great for me, what will I use it for?”, it would be having works available for educational purposes on the Internet. That's the bottom line for me. It has prevented us from showin

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  We feel it will, yes.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  No. Actually, I was addressing the exhibition rights and the fact that we can buy the work of art but we can't show it without paying additional fees to the artists. We just feel that this is an inefficient way of--

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Right. It's slides for lectures and that sort of thing for education purposes.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Sure. The effect for us is going to be minimal. It's going to be increasingly minimal because our opportunities to purchase works are becoming diminished; we just don't have enough money to purchase them. So it really doesn't have a big impact on us. We think it requires more

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  By and large, when we purchase works of art, to be honest with you, we're purchasing contemporary works of art right from the artist. We're not purchasing historical works, because we can't afford them. That's the reality of the situation. As you say, we look at a work of art an

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Jon Tupper. I'm the president of the board of the Canadian Museums Association. My day job is as director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in British Columbia. I'm here with our executive director, John McAvity. Established in 1947, the C