I guess that, as we said, we're in a transition period. In the good old days.... We have a culture of fiddle music. A senator is putting forward a bill to have “Fiddle Day”. Other than Stéphane Grappelli, Natalie MacMaster, and Ashley MacIsaac, we don't know very many people who make a living playing the fiddle; we have a few violinists in every city who will maybe hold the chair in a symphony. I used to play in the Lethbridge one and never was paid to do it. I enjoyed it, but most of the fiddle music that existed and continues to exist is made for the love of it.
I would love to be paid to play the violin. I'd love to be paid to play hockey, but we know that only a small percentage of people are paid to play hockey. While I agree that it's the government's mandate to promote heritage, is it also to make sure that people make a living promoting that heritage, any more than in the case of hockey?