I would like to clarify one point.
In our language, when we say "the Canadian francophonie", that is shorthand for the official language minority communities. The Canadian francophonie is a shorter expression that we use to avoid referring to francophones outside Quebec. It is not very pleasant for us to define ourselves in those terms.
That being said, the music industry crisis that Mr. Bisaillon described earlier—we are not talking about the new music economy here—has not hurt just the artists. When the Alliance nationale de l'industrie musicale was established in 2001, there were enormous numbers of complaints in the francophone and Acadian communities. Access to funding was virtually impossible. You can state the figures in absolute terms or as percentages, but artists in the Canadian francophone communities barely received $200,000 in 2001. Ten years later, however, the figure was more like $1.3 million at Musicaction, for example.
So this means that there has been some catching up. For a long time, we said we had a lot of catching up to do, but we have stopped saying that because we do not want to catch up to a model that is exploding or collapsing.
On the other hand, we have clearly experienced both growth and consolidation in our communities as a result of available funding. For example, under Musicaction's Music Showcases program, which is funded under the roadmap for official languages, we are now able to obtain 15% of available funding. Francophones outside Quebec, who represent 15% of francophones in Canada, are receiving an appropriate percentage.
Many agencies and organizations in our network are funded through official language support programs, which foster the emergence of new artists. Those programs play an important role in that they help artists become professional, promote themselves and develop markets. Natalie talked about the 100 Nons agency in Manitoba. There is also APCM in Ontario and Musique NB in New Brunswick.