text: (Fernando Morales/The Globe and Mail) Eric Baptiste SOCAN
  Canada is currently in a season of Copyright Reform with the Minister of Science - Technology and Commerce Navdeep Bains and Minister of Canadian Heritage Melanie Joly inviting Canadian Musicians to take part in shaping the future of the Canadian Music industry, giving us until Sept. 29th 2017.  
  Unfortunately according to Eric Baptiste and SOCAN however,  the Copyright Board of Canada announced on Aug. 20th 2017, that it had reached it's final decisions of 3 years of deliberations to SOCAN, and then SOCAN announced on their website on Aug. 29 2017, "while SOCAN is pleased with some of the Board’s legal conclusions, we are concerned by a number of issues relating to the certification of the royalty rates".  On Sept 6th I wrote to both Ministers asking, "how are we to notify of our suggestions to Canada, if the decision making process has already completed"
  
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