But the five-year, $138 million extension of the Canada Music Fund, the overall fund that supports Canadian music, provided certainty to the industry. No government had ever provided a five-year extension of it before. It allows you to count on what is there for support, despite what may happen; you know there's all kinds of talk that the government is going to have to move from a position of providing stimulus to the economy to budgetary restraint in a couple of years, but both the music industry and the broader arts industry know they are not going to be part of that because we've made commitments five years out. Isn't it important that we've done that?
On October 22nd, 2009. See this statement in context.