In my case, it is obvious that without these grants, there would never have been good quality records or recordings. It will perhaps take me another ten years before I am really well known is my field.
We are talking about the minuscule amount of $1.4 million. Why could this amount not be given to the Canada Council for the Arts, why could the funding provided to the Canada Council for the Arts not be increased by a measly $2 million? These $2 million could be directly injected into music. Music agents could then develop a specialized sound recording program that would fall under the control of the Canada Council for the Arts. In this way, there would no longer be cuts coming magically from the outside.