First Nations artists and leaders will unveil a brief on Tuesday calling on the CRTC to impose a quota for Indigenous music on commercial radio.
Songwriter Florent Vollant, producer Mathieu Mckenzie (also of the group Maten), as well as chiefs Mike Mckenzie of Innu Takuaikan Uashat mak Mani-Utenam and Ghislain Picard of the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador will ask for a quota 5% broadcast of Aboriginal music on the commercial airwaves.
This presence on the radio is presented as “fundamental, not only for Aboriginal artists, but also for Aboriginal peoples in Quebec and Canada”.
Émile Bilodeau, author-composer friend and ally of Aboriginal artists, will be at the unveiling of the memoir along with his friend Scott-Pien Picard, Innu musician from the Uashat mak Mani-Utenam community.