Canadian Heritage committee  Well, we support the author's resale right. We think it's an important addition to the related rights to copyright.

Canadian Heritage committee  The shortest answer I can give is that my previous company, Les Éditions Duval, or Duval House Publishing, in Edmonton, was a specialist publisher in French-language resources for schools outside of Quebec to support their constitutional right to education in French. It was Canad

Canadian Heritage committee  I agree. It's a heartache for me.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have great sympathy for teachers. I think teachers will resource their classrooms by any means at their disposal. At the most expensive, educational resource purchasing was less than 1% of educational budgets before this change. The wholesale move to this copying regime has mea

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks for the question. To clarify, the information from yesterday is that solutions that we hoped to see in a government bill were not in the bill. The solution we're looking for is an increase in statutory damages. If copyright infringers know that they will face quick and r

Canadian Heritage committee  The numbers from my company were down in licensing revenue, about 86% of where we were in 2012. You survive by finding ways to do more with less, but there are sacrifices. We have less production that we can do in Canada, for example. We need to use services that are based outsid

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks for the question. First of all, I think our goal is to be on the same page and to have the industry committee and this committee making the same recommendations. My remarks were somewhat different today from those made at the industry committee, but that's because of this

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the universities find value in the work we do that's uniquely Canadian. Any support that's available in good offices would go to the benefit of our members of the Canadian-owned sector. The contributions we make are unique. They're not being made by the international sect

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it's for K-12 as well. Again, any signal from the government that it understands our problem—that we're bleeding in real time and that we need some redress on this—would be welcome. So far, from preconsultations until now, we have not had that signal.

Canadian Heritage committee  The licences are through Copibec. I don't have the gross numbers in hand. I know the rates they charge for copying have been depressed by the fact that the rest of the country has been unwilling to license.

Canadian Heritage committee  I know that for Access Copyright, our collective, the collective for Canadian authors, illustrators, and photographers in the text licensing realm, the total collected at any stage is under $40 million.

Canadian Heritage committee  The education sector was responsible for most of that, between K-12 and post-secondary. There was additional licensing to the public sector, and in some cases to private companies, for their use of copyright-protected material. There are also bilaterals that govern the copying of

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, and I think Access Copyright is also on your witness list. They will have direct access to those numbers that aren't on the tip of my tongue.

Canadian Heritage committee  The short answer is yes. They're the same recommendations. I saved a little word length by not reading them out again today in committee.