Thank you.
We know from Alice Munro's award, and from many other Canadian authors, that Canadian authors are as good as or better than anybody else in the world, as are Canadian musicians. They sell records all over the world. I'm thinking of groups like Nickelback, and singers like Céline Dion and others.
For the record, could please talk about the economic impacts arts and culture have in Canada with regard to our cultural industries. How many jobs come from the arts? When somebody writes a book, it creates jobs through publishing and distributing. It's the same thing when somebody writes a song. It goes through the record business. You need promoters. People sell them in the stores. You need artists to design the covers. But there's a huge number of jobs created in the arts.
Could you please talk a bit about that?