Finance committee  Simply because of the administration and tracking of such things and also because we believe it would be more onerous to try and track it, private sales are not tracked, but public sales are easily tracked. The galleries, dealers, and auction houses are the only people who really

Finance committee  I would just add that every single year that goes by thousands and thousands of dollars that could end up in the pockets of some of the poorest labourers in Canada, all of your constituents, are being missed. These aren't people who have incomes to spare and the money is signific

Finance committee  It's a royalty. For example, I'm a playwright by vocation. Every single time a piece of my writing is reproduced after the initial production of the play, I receive royalties, as do most artists in Canada because it's our intellectual property. This is the function in order for v

Finance committee  Ninety-three.

Finance committee  The United States isn't one of them. The State of California, I believe, has it, as well as the entire EU and Australia and New Zealand.

Finance committee  There isn't in Canada because the public sale of art is not public information. However, the countries that recently passed it, including the U.K. and Australia, have metrics about how much it has benefited artists since that data has been collected through the artist's resale ri

Finance committee  Absolutely, and you don't have to ask me for it. The evidence-based research is there to prove that from other countries. You mentioned the 93 other nations that have it. Many of these are developing nations where their art is known as indigenous art. It's highly valuable, and

Finance committee  I'm so happy.

Finance committee  I just want to make the point that these are not struggling or insignificant artists who are earning $18,000. These are our best artists, our brightest minds. What other industry can boast such success for the people around them while ensuring that next to no profits go the labou

Finance committee  On behalf of the Canadian Artists Representation—le Front des artistes canadiens, along with our seven provincial affiliates and our partner in Quebec, RAAV, le Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec, I want to thank everybody for having us here today. I want to beg