CERTIFICATION ORDER
WHEREAS the Association québécoise des auteurs dramatiques was certified under the Status of the Artist Act by the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal on April 26, 1996;
AND WHEREAS since April 1, 2013, the Canada Industrial Relations Board is responsible for the administration of Part II of the Status of the Artist Act;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Canada Industrial Relations Board hereby confirms that the
ASSOCIATION QUÉBÉCOISE DES AUTEURS DRAMATIQUES
is certified to represent, for the purposes of professional relations with all producers subject to the Status of the Artist Act (S.C. 1992, c.33) throughout Canada, a sector composed of:
a. authors of original French-language dramatic works and original librettos for French-language dramatico-musical works created for the stage, in respect of the public performance of such work or the recording of that performance; and
b. authors of French-language translations or French-language adaptations, intended for the stage, of dramatic works or librettos originally written in another language or in another variant of the French language, or based on a work intended for another medium of distribution, in respect of the public performance of such translation or adaption or the recording of that performance.
AND that, for the purposes of section 28(2) of the Status of the Artists Act, the original date of the certification remains April 26, 1996.
ISSUED at Ottawa, Ontario this 29th day of April 2013
Elizabeth MacPherson
Chairperson
Order no. 10396-U