Finance committee  Okay. The catalyst for this was the fall of the Stoddart empire in publishing. When Stoddart went into receivership, they were not only publishing books but they had general distribution under their umbrella, and that was the distribution of all of the books as well. We tried to

Finance committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak to this. In the province of Quebec there is a tax credit for creators on copywritten material. When a creator creates a piece, let's say an author creates a book, there is no tax paid on the first $30,000 earned, I believe. It is solely a t

Finance committee  Welcome and thank you. The chair of the Writers' Union, Ron Brown, will speak on behalf of the union.