Yes, it is a good thing, but the redistribution you referred to left holes in the budgets of certain parts of the industry. There is nothing new about programs being cancelled, but we now have to be told where we should go for assistance when we are planning a tour or need funding to host a writer or a foreign theatre company, for example. That is the question the government cannot quite seem to answer. We applauded—and I myself did this in a number of interviews—what was positive in this budget, but we have an obligation to criticize what is bad.
On March 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.