A Quill and Quire article by Dan Rowe includes:
After an investigation that spanned nearly 18 months, two people, including one former employee of Access Copyright, were charged Tuesday with fraud and attempted fraud for allegedly mailing cheques worth a total of $61,343 from the Canadian copyright licensing agency to creators and companies that...
(... didn't exist).
Obvious questions: Should there be more government intervention into the books of Collective Societies such as Access Copyright, given they are creatures of statute (IE: created under the Copyright Act). Should their books be open to Access to Information requests, much like new Accountability Act is suggesting for crown corporations?
Should these agencies, which act as a monopoly protected against Competition law, be allowed to lobby government or provide propaganda to the public promoting their special interest views of copyright law?