Make sure your next Member of Parliament will defend your rights as a cultural worker and ensure that our Canadian culture can flourish in the digital age.

Download our printable flyer with the questions.

Ask your local candidates if they are committed to:

1. Creating our Canadian content:

Canadian content is not only critical to our national identity, but it is playing an increasingly important role in our financial well-being wealth. Canada’s cultural industries contribute more than $85 billion – or 7.4% to our GDP – and more than 1.1 million jobs to our economy.

• Will you make increased long-term investments in content production through the CMF, Telefilm, CBC, and the NFB?

2. See our Canadian content:

Increased foreign control of Canadian telecommunications and broadcasting would damage Canada’s sovereignty over cultural policy and jeopardize Canadian content regulations.

• Will you maintain restrictions on foreign ownership in telecommunications and broadcasting?

3. Respecting our Canadian creators:

It’s very difficult to make a living as a professional artist in Canada.  In order to encourage creativity and value cultural productivity, self-employed artists need fair and equitable tax laws that are sensitive to their often fluctuating incomes.  We also need fair copyright reform that gives creators the protection they need to make a living and retain control over their work.

• Will you provide fair and equitable tax treatment for artists by instituting income averaging and exempting royalties from income tax?

• Will you commit to reforming Canada’s outdated copyright laws to strengthen the collective licensing mechanisms that professional creators rely on to protect their work and make a living?