Canadian Heritage committee  I want to make sure I understood your question correctly. You are asking whether the Canada Music Fund is a good program. There is a healthy volume of music being produced in Canada so far. That is the case in Quebec in particular. We are looking specifically at the industry in

Canadian Heritage committee  Exactly. This observation is fundamental and confirms what everyone is seeing. At least, it's possible to put some numbers to it. Overall, 5% of household expenditures are allocated to culture and to access products. “Access products” means telephones and the Internet, for exampl

Canadian Heritage committee  I will try to give a very visual explanation of the point you are raising. When walking into a bookstore or a record store—if we want to talk about music—there are display cases and national products are easy to see. When one ends up on the Internet, where are those national prod

Canadian Heritage committee  I do not analyze the effect of the Canadian government's investment in music. Rather, we look more at production. We have seen that the volume of production has been steady, but that the market is declining, based on our indicators. This might make you think, as other witnesses h

Canadian Heritage committee  The study I provided to you also includes the analysis of household expenditures. It would be useful to look at what is happening there. We used data from the Survey of Household Spending pertaining to expenses in culture and access to culture. This market has represented about

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning. Thank you for having invited us to appear before you today. I will briefly talk about the key points we want to present to you today. Essentially, these are statistical numbers. We do not have any definite opinions, but our numbers can still