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New Canadian law for international touring artists
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| Watts |
http://www.calgaryherald.com/entert...2759/story.html
| quote: | The regulations require that any venue with a primary business other than music but which also books bands or performers must now pay an application fee of $275 per musician and those travelling with the band (tour manager, sound person, guitar tech, etc.) when it applies for a Labour Market Opinion, or LMO, to allow those outside workers to perform and work in their establishment. That’s also in addition to an extra $150 for each approved musician and crew member’s work permit.
Prior to the changes, the fee was simply $150 per band member, maxing out at $450, and that was a one-time fee for them to simply enter the country, which allowed venue owners across Canada to share the nominal cost or book them separately at no extra charge.
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I wanted to tour Canada next year with my band. So much for that. |
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| wienerschnitzel |
| Canadians are PISSED. This is a bull law and i hope harper chokes on a chicken bone or dies of pancreatic cancer. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| Only a big deal for garage bands. |
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| Guest |
| Honestly it's to be expected in Canada. Look at what has happened to Canadian radio... |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by clay
the world goes to an end. art and entertainment should be free. |
Art is free, it's your ability to witness or possess a certain type that is for sale. |
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| Adam420 |
| If you do some reading up on why they are doing this, it makes very little sense. I mean the fee makes sense for what it's intended to do, i.e. discourage Canadian companies from hiring temporary foreign workers, but I think that when it comes to that, $275 is not going to thwart anybody's intentions to hire foreigners. It doesn't make sense to lump artists together with TFW and this just reeks of laziness and ignorance. The argument can be made that this will protect Canadian artists but I honestly think it'd be a struggle to find many Canadian artists that would actually agree with this. |
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| BTG |
| as a canadian i can say i don't care. because i don't go out. eat it other canadians. |
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