Canadian Heritage committee  Very generally, I would say that the legislative and regulatory framework in Canada in recent years has leaned towards consumers at the expense of creators and that we need the legislative and regulatory framework to be balanced.

Canadian Heritage committee  There are certainly favourable opportunities. Canadian society has access to all kinds of markets for music. There are international music markets where buyers—and therefore sellers, the artists—meet. The beauty of the thing is that, because of the technology we have available t

Canadian Heritage committee  A lot of artists have to earn a living elsewhere because they often have no fair and equitable remuneration. However, in the life of an artist, things do not exactly work out that way. There are creative periods during which there is generally no income for some time. Then there

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning. First, thank you for the invitation to appear before you. The Alliance nationale de l'industrie musicale (ANIM) works in francophone and Acadian communities, or, in other words, in official language minority communities. ANIM is a small organization; I am the onl

Canadian Heritage committee  If we want Canadians to continue listening to our own music, to listen to each other and to acknowledge each other through it, we must maintain a series of tools that will help us deal with a largely internationalized music market. I say "internationalized", not "Americanized".

Canadian Heritage committee  I would like to clarify one point. In our language, when we say "the Canadian francophonie", that is shorthand for the official language minority communities. The Canadian francophonie is a shorter expression that we use to avoid referring to francophones outside Quebec. It is n

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning. Thank you for inviting us. We have three tools that we use to evaluate the status of the music industry in the francophone and Acadian communities, that is to say the francophone minority communities. They are two studies that were conducted in 2001 and 2005 and ou