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Patrick Rogers Board Member, Toronto
Patrick Rogers is the newly appointed CEO of Music Canada. He first joined Music Canada in 2016 with the goal of innovating Music Canada’s advocacy strategy. In that time, Music Canada led the charge in reforming the Copyright Board of Canada, advocated for an improved Ontario Music Investment Fund and rallied cultural industry stakeholders during the parliamentary review of the Copyright Act.
The details arrived today via Lisa MacLeod, Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries.
She revealed the Unison Benevolent Fund will receive a one-time grant of up to $2 million to provide immediate support to individual musicians and industry workers, the vast majority of which have been out of work for over a year due to the ongoing pandemic.
Another $500,000 will be given to the Canadian Live Music Association to help foster the local music communities in a post-COVID-19 economy. Ontario s music industry provides thousands of jobs for musicians, stage and touring technicians, venue staff, agents and many others working behind the scenes, said MacLeod in a statement. That s why it s important to support individual musicians and local communities, so they can continue to meet their financial obligations, obtain and create sustainable opportunities, and plan for their recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.