Canadian Heritage committee  I would say they're all very important and as a package could make a huge difference. The radio royalty exemption that was supposed to be temporary, that needs to go. The definition of “sound recording”, for me, I would like that to go because that would change my life dramatica

Canadian Heritage committee  —important to me. Those four as a package are very important.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think what Bryan Adams being here signalled to creators was that it's great that he's listening and speaking up for us. That was really wonderful. I think without a functioning marketplace, it doesn't matter how long we have any kinds of rights for.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think one of the most disappointing things about the digital revolution, to me as an artist who started just as it began, was that we were promised a levelling of the playing field. We were promised artist to listener with no middlemen, or middlewomen, to be politically correct

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd love to go over the four points I mentioned, because that's exactly what they do. Right now, I and all my creator colleagues are subsidizing billionaires, and the subsidies have to stop. That would be under the radio royalty exemption. I know there's a lot of talk about all

Canadian Heritage committee  It's night and day. From when he began his career and when I began my career, there has been a seismic shift. I received the $280 to do one recording session for Republic of Doyle. I do one recording session. I go in there and I play my fiddle for three hours, doing a whole bun

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not an economist, so I don't know how much I would get. However, if we look at the jingle I did, “Good things grow in Ontario”—which is not actually an easy little musical phrase—because it's not the same, because it's a jingle, an ad, and not under the same rules, I do get r

Canadian Heritage committee  Maybe in the mall you heard it or a jingle I played on.

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. All right.

Canadian Heritage committee  It could on all four of mine actually. I noticed that David Bussières also mentioned three of my four. Each one would have immediate effect. The first one is about the radio royalty exemption and getting rid of that subsidy. Again there's subsidizing. Your artists are subsidizi

Canadian Heritage committee  Good.

Canadian Heritage committee  That you know of.

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon. My name is Miranda Mulholland, and I'm very happy to be here today. I'm a professional musician, a record label owner and a music festival founder, and most recently, I've become an artist advocate. I started my career in 1999, just as the digital revolution s