Thanks, Madam Chair.
This is my first time sitting on the heritage committee. I'm usually at the health committee. In my three years there we've been talking about rare diseases and anti-microbial resistance and diabetes and concussions, so being here today and listening to your presentations is a breath of fresh air.
It's kind of ironic, because my family is very much into music promotion in Calgary. We have a television program, Stampede City Sessions. I don't know if you've heard of that or not. They're throughout the Pacific northwest and Memphis and Nashville in Tennessee. When we produce a show, we bring in local talent to play at our performing arts centre. Local talent, international talent, Canadian talent from throughout Canada—we bring them in and we showcase their talent. We're quite proud that we're helping these young individuals and bands do well.
From getting to know some of the artists, I know they absolutely love YouTube. That's how they market their talents. Without your services, without the Spotlight channel that you mentioned, and Creator on the Rise and all these different programs, they would certainly struggle, more so than they do now. I think of someone like Justin Bieber. He started out on YouTube, did he not? Was that not where he was discovered?