Canadian Heritage committee  This is mainly spent on activities to retrieve the recorded music within Canada. It's to make the labels know they exist and that it's mandatory for them to send the masters to the library. Also, in the last few years they have been transferring from the physical masters to digit

Canadian Heritage committee  When we look overall in the music industry, the holistic approach has proven to be a success. What I mean by this is the CRTC CCD content is for us, the CMF, something that works because the money is blended and this is blended with the public money. For each dollar that is inves

Canadian Heritage committee  The Canadian content quotas are stemming from different transactions. When the CRTC, by regulation, they send it to.... Sorry, I'm talking about the CCD contribution. They are allocated to FACTOR and Musicaction, Radio Star and Starmaker. When they are allocated to FACTOR and

Canadian Heritage committee  They have juries. This is not a decision that is made by the government. Those are juried.

Canadian Heritage committee  There are the Junos too. There are selections done by committees that are looking at diverse criteria, such as your sales, your work, and from where you go to where. Based on their selection, they have nominees, and then they make the selection for the winners.

Canadian Heritage committee  In certain categories, it's like when you go to restaurants; it's the choice of the public. They're the ones.... There are surveys that go out and depending on which categories they select....

Canadian Heritage committee  Given all the changes that the artists and the entrepreneurs in the music industry in general are going through, I think that it is always good to get a sense of the real challenges they face every day. Understanding their challenges is the best way to adjust public policy. So y

Canadian Heritage committee  You are talking about revenue. Over the past decade—

Canadian Heritage committee  —the market shares we use to see the results for the Canada music fund are the value of all the sales in Canada. As a result, according to our data, there is a constant 26%. There was a peak of 28%, but the value has held steady at 26%.

Canadian Heritage committee  The music world is being turned on its head. We are paying a lot of attention to the level of consumption and to the way in which music is being consumed. There are a lot of platforms. They provide new opportunities and new challenges at the same time. Twenty years ago, we sold

Canadian Heritage committee  The key result for us is to look at the market share, and in Canada the domestic market share. Again, this is to look at the overall sales within Canada. As we've just pointed out, we see that despite all the challenges that are occurring in the music industry, this is right now

Canadian Heritage committee  The music must be Canadian content. There is a way to determine whether the content is Canadian, but I will not get into the details since I don't have the information with me. Once the content is labelled as Canadian, we search the Nielsen SoundScan data. Actually, we always use

Canadian Heritage committee  No, it must meet—

Canadian Heritage committee  There are a number of ways to be aware of the changes and to see if the industry is generally satisfied with the support it receives and the way the funding is allocated. We do not conduct official consultations, but part of our work is to gather information. We constantly commu

Canadian Heritage committee  Or change, exactly. With their respective boards of directors, each third-party administrator presents their recommendations internally.