Just to follow up on the fear factor, I have to say that Canadian artists, in my experience, are not fearful. Canadian artists look around them and they find that they rank very highly among the artists of the world. Certainly Canadian artists are highly regarded and are all over the place in leadership roles.
What artists fear is that the institutions of their country do not fully support them, do not make their successes known within their own country, so that very often they have to go somewhere else to keep being successful. And that's really unfortunate.