“Under the proposed guidelines, licenses would cost 250 dollars for an artist and one-thousand dollars for an establishment. Tattoo parlors also would be required to obtain a 100-thousand-dollar surety bond.”

From KTen

“If you want an appointment with Vancouver’s Steve Moore, you’ll have to wait until at least 2008. ‘Initially when I started people weren’t getting big tattoos, so you could get a lot more done, you got more people through the door,’ says Moore. ‘Now tattoos are whole arms, big pieces. You dedicate like 20 or 30 hours to a piece so you really can’t tattoo as many people in a year.’”

From Canada.com