Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. We think that the online streaming act could actually be game-changing for the future of Canadian content creation. It's a major opportunity for performers, in terms of jobs and exposure. Amending proposed paragraph 3(1)(f) is crucial for us. Our goal is to equalize the regulatory obligations across all broadcasting undertakings delivering similar programming to avoid a cascade effect of traditional broadcasters seeking to lower their obligations to match those of online undertakings.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the traditional baseline should endure and I hope that answers your question.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll go, Eleanor, as long as you're okay. Thank you for the question. I think you heard a similar pitch from the DGC, from Dave Forget in his presentation. We have been working together with industry stakeholders, with the Writers Guild, the Canadian Media Producers Association and the CDCE.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's really hard for us to give you a number, Mr. Julian, because we don't have an agreement for social media. We don't have something that I could point to and say that we represent this number of workers.

Canadian Heritage committee  Keith, I'll start and then I'll hand it over to you. We were advocating for the four-year income averaging because that was available in the past. That was available to artists up until 1989. Familiarity was first and foremost on our minds. We've done it in the past. It's still available.

Canadian Heritage committee  Of course. For employment insurance we definitely are excited about the review that is being undertaken and the opportunity of broadening the system so that self-employed workers can participate. Our members want to work. They want to be contributing to the system so that they have a safety net if something like this were to happen again.