International Trade committee  Maybe I'll start, if no one else minds. In our membership, the college students aren't coming to help someone else. They are turning to being freelancers because they graduate from college with a technical training in digital illustration or photography or some other technical

International Trade committee  My members are largely working independently, so probably not, but they are finding themselves caught in a situation coming out of school where they have these technical skills, but they don't have the verbose Canadian media to go and work with, so they strike out on their own an

International Trade committee  I think there are a few ways that we could do that, which I spoke about in my statement: things like having a revenue levy on the domestic ISPs for injecting about $118 million into the production of Canadian news and entertainment; things like making sure that Netflix and Google

International Trade committee  I wouldn't be able to comment on that. That's technology I am not familiar with.

International Trade committee  I think so. In my industry of web-building, our biggest competitors are small design shops in India that work on something like a fiver platform where they do everything for five dollars. Everything done by my company for similar services is a couple of thousand dollars. Acknowl

International Trade committee  One of the services we offer for our members is how to write a template contract. Many of our members, being younger and being individuals, are just doing this as they lose a regular job and find themselves at a total loss as to how to run that kind of business. That's where thes

International Trade committee  Yes, we'll talk more.

International Trade committee  My name is Ethan Clarke. I am the vice-president of the Canadian Freelance Union. We are a union of communications workers who have a freelance relationship with our employers or clients. Our union started as a response to the downsizing of newsrooms across the country about a