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