Actors continue to press for Act changes

TORONTO – The badly flawed Status Of Ontario Artists Act has to be changed, ACTRA said again today. ACTRA Toronto President, Karl Pruner, presenting at the Ontario Budget hearings was speaking to The Status of the Ontario Artist Act which was introduced on March 22, 2007, as Schedule 39 of the Budget. “This Act, as presented, gets a failing grade,” said Pruner. “After years of hard work by the Culture Minister’s own sub-committee on Status of the Artist, all this empty Act contains is a weekend to celebrate artists.” ‘‘Artists are among the most underpaid workers in our economy and...