24 recommendations

Report of the premier's task force on the status of the artist — Twenty-four recommendations of the task force.

Recommendations

  1. Establish a transition committee
  2. Adopt a definition of professional artist
  3. Develop and adopt a status of the artist legislation
  4. Include provisions in a status of the artist legislation
  5. Recognize invisible work
  6. Advocate for fair taxation of digital giants
  7. Revise the copyright act
  8. Introduce resale rights for visual artists
  9. Make written contracts mandatory
  10. Establish minimum fee scales
  11. Modify tax measures
  12. Increase funding for arts programs in schools
  13. Hire New Brunswick artists first
  14. Strengthen the public art policy for New Brunswick
  15. Establish an artist-in-residence program and strengthen current program
  16. Establish a guideline for examining and adapting social protection schemes
  17. Explore the establishment of a guaranteed annual income program
  18. Explore a portable benefit model
  19. Include invisible work in the calculation of pension contributions
  20. Adapt and strengthen the Canada Pension Plan
  21. Review and adapt the existing employment insurance measures to professional artists
  22. Document barriers to child care accessibility
  23. Document workplace injuries and sickness and propose means of prevention
  24. Conduct a feasibility study on career transition programs and services for artists