Yes, it certainly did. The fact is that I often travel abroad. I am part of Dance/USA and other international organizations.
In fact, the Canadian model in terms of financing international touring has been, in most cases, presented as one of the best models. Why? Because somehow it's between the European model, where it's mostly the government supporting our colleagues, and the American model, which is exactly the reverse--private money.
Why was it considered the best model? Actually, in many workshops I was talking about why it was one of the best models. It actually brings the best of each partner in order to bring success to our organizations abroad.
Now we are looking at what's going on in the States. It's a total disaster. Because they can only rely on that private funding and because there is this amazing crisis out there, not only are my colleagues panicking, but they just don't know what to do.
We are lucky in that sense to have found that balance between all sources of funding. Everybody is making an effort to make it work. In that sense, it was considered, particularly by our colleagues in America, as one of the best models.