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{
"time": "2006-09-25 16:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Paul Sharpe",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"146924\" data-originallang=\"en\">First of all, on behalf of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, we're here to advocate specifically for artist musicians. We see no reason self-employed people in all sectors, regardless.... We're not asking for different treatment; we're just here advocating for musicians in particular.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"146925\" data-originallang=\"en\">We think that the growth in the self-employed sector is going to have to be addressed in all kinds of different things, and we're here trying to take a positive and active role in servicing the members we advocate for.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"146926\" data-originallang=\"en\">One other thing I think I should bring to your attention is that the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, as I mentioned earlier, has the AFM-EPW Fund (Canada). It is an employer pension fund, of course, a registered RRP. It has current assets of more than $550 million. We have many members in our association who are actively invested in that program, but the vast majority of the 13,000 members we represent in Canada are self-employed and are not eligible. It's not really trying to get different treatment. We're doing the same work under the same types of conditions in our self-employment as those who are in employee-employer relationships.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"146924\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tout d'abord, la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration am\u00e9ricaine des musiciens des \u00c9tats-Unis et du Canada d\u00e9fend pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment les int\u00e9r\u00eats des artistes musiciens. Nous ne voyons pas pourquoi tous les travailleurs autonomes de tous les secteurs, quel que soit... Nous ne demandons pas d'\u00eatre trait\u00e9s diff\u00e9remment; nous d\u00e9fendons tout simplement les int\u00e9r\u00eats des musiciens en particulier.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"146925\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous pensons que la croissance du secteur des travailleurs autonomes va exiger toute une gamme de mesures, et nous essayons de jouer un r\u00f4le positif et actif en nous portant \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense de nos membres.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"146926\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je dois \u00e9galement vous signaler que la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration am\u00e9ricaine des musiciens des \u00c9tats-Unis et du Canada, comme je l'ai dit tout \u00e0 l'heure, poss\u00e8de la caisse de retraite et de bien-\u00eatre de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration am\u00e9ricaine des musiciens et des employeurs (Canada). Ses actifs s'\u00e9l\u00e8vent actuellement \u00e0 550 millions de dollars. Un grand nombre de membres de notre association cotisent activement \u00e0 ce programme mais la vaste majorit\u00e9 des 13 000 membres que nous repr\u00e9sentons au Canada sont des travailleurs autonomes et ne sont pas admissibles. Il ne s'agit pas ici de r\u00e9clamer un traitement diff\u00e9rent. Quand nous travaillons \u00e0 notre propre compte, nous faisons le m\u00eame travail dans le m\u00eame genre de conditions que ceux qui ont un rapport employeur-employ\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/finance/39-1/21/paul-sharpe-3/",
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