It's almost a loaded question, and I say that with respect because nobody knows perhaps what will happen.
The fact is that artists are being paid less for the same amount of use of their work. If you look at it as a curve, eventually the curve is going to go down.
As to whether they're going to leave the country, some probably will; some might not. As Alexis has stated, there's a perfect storm of things happening now. To use the example she brought up, the CRA looks at one artist—an artist, by the way, with extensive international practice and recognition all over the world—as a hobbyist. He's being looked at by the Canada Council for the Arts as a professional.
We need to get the definitions right. I think that's what it is. There is a danger. What the danger is, I don't know. I shudder to think.