Industry committee  It is slightly undetermined. My biggest recommendation right now is to support that localized work that needs to happen so that we have entities that we can draw upon for that knowledge. In the meantime, all we have is the current law, but as I mentioned right at the beginning

Industry committee  That's a million-dollar question. I think this is the part where we haven't finished our discussions. It goes back to being able to restructure that communal entity, if you will, that allows for individuals within that entity to create their own works and still go out and copyr

Industry committee  We've been waiting a really long time for some steps to move forward. One of my most immediate priorities is the formation of a national indigenous arts service and advocacy organization. We need some sort of a system where, as my colleagues mentioned, we can address committees s

Industry committee  We actually had an initiative here in B.C. that began to address that through the Indigenous Tourism Association. We did an authenticity labelling system. It was a pilot. We did this in 2014 and 2015, but of course it required funding support. We did not have the funding support

Industry committee  Here in B.C., I know that we've had a lot of discussion around that. Again, that falls under the example that's being set by our language revitalization communities. There's still no upper-level legislative protection that covers everybody the same way because the languages are s

Industry committee  That is a good question. There was an approach that I recommended when I was working at the Banff Centre for the aboriginal arts program back in 2003-04. We did a pilot project where we brought together traditional dancers to show us the actual movements they use so that our mode

Industry committee  Absolutely. I think one of the advantages we have at this moment in time is all of the work that's been going on around the revitalization of indigenous languages. As I mentioned, everything is really intertwined—social, political, economic, cultural, governance, legal—and that i

Industry committee  [Witness speaks in Kwak'wala] I've introduced myself, Lou-ann Neel. One of the names that I carry is Ika'wega. I come from the Mamalilikulla and the Kwagiulth of the Kwakwaka'wakw, the Kwak'wala-speaking people. I acknowledge the Lax Kw'alaams people for always making me feel so