{"id":4450,"date":"2014-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/07\/touring-in-canada-becomes-cheaper-canadian-government-drops-fees-for-touring-musician\/"},"modified":"2014-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T00:00:00","slug":"touring-in-canada-becomes-cheaper-canadian-government-drops-fees-for-touring-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/07\/07\/touring-in-canada-becomes-cheaper-canadian-government-drops-fees-for-touring-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"Touring in Canada becomes cheaper: Canadian Government Drops Fees for Touring Musician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/c\/cf\/Flag_of_Canada.svg\/1000px-Flag_of_Canada.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"216\" height=\"108\" \/><br \/>Last year, the Canadian government made it difficult for foreign acts to tour in the country. A\u00a0$275 fee per band member was implemented\u00a0for acts playing in small bars, clubs, and other venues.\u00a0This was in addition to a $150 work permit for individual acts and a $450 permit per band. Puzzlingly, the fees did not apply for concerts at larger venues.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The government said the fee would ensure that more Canadians would be hired in the industry, as opposed to foreign temporary workers.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as no surprise that this caused outrage. \u00a0It made it extremely difficult for many\u00a0artists\u00a0to afford a Canadian tour and didn\u2019t help local workers.<\/p>\n<h2>Now, a year later, the Canadian government has finally dropped both these costly requirements.<\/h2>\n<p>This will not only make it easier for foreign acts to tour in Canada, but it will help Canadian businesses by attracting\u00a0international artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Digital Music News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Canadian government made it difficult for foreign acts to tour in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}