Actually, you have a picture.
You can see the amount received from
the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Montreal Arts Council, the Ministry of Economy, Science and Innovation of Quebec, and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy of Quebec. We also received a subsidy from the city centre and a subsidy from the borough of Ville-Marie.
To the right of the table, you can see a list of SAT's independent revenues.
This year, we will finish the year with independent revenues of 71%, and 7% recurrent operational assistance funding. This means that the SAT lives on the basis of what it produces.
We received precious government assistance to build the structure. As I said earlier, we were to submit a request to obtain a subsidy from the New Media Research Networks Fund, thanks to which we earned almost $1 million, year after year. But the program was cancelled and has never been replaced by anything similar.
Today, if we want artists to play a role as full-fledged researchers, there is no program that aligns with that at Canadian Heritage. We are going back to models we knew in the past.
At this time, the SAT does not receive one penny from Canada, and that has been the case since 2011. We may have been your worst investment; when we opened the building, we were already sidelined because we no longer had access to those funds.
In the eyes of the Canada Council for the Arts, we suddenly became a centre that was of no interest. The operational assistance we had received every four years was withdrawn in favour of annual funding. Whereas two years before, we had been classified as an underfunded but key organization, all of a sudden we became an uninteresting organization. Our operational assistance was withdrawn and we were given annual funding of $35,000 a year, and we are somewhat reluctant in the face of that.
If we want a resumption of operational funding, we have to have special projects that span two years. Canada is not a part of the project.