For me, hubs are places that are about innovation, are nimble, and should be about providing places and spaces to voices we don't often hear, especially in places in an urban environment like Toronto, where the population is changing and the way people are living is changing. People are no longer engaging with these large monolithic structures. They're working and interacting with small, more human-scale places.
I would say that Canadian Heritage should seek out those places and those people who are actually creating space for those voices we don't often hear, and fund and support those human-scale spaces where people can really be authentic in their expression.
Also, that's not just artists. That's where citizens and artists meet. I feel that artists so often have been taken out of conversations around health care, science, climate change, and education, when in fact the one thing that we are is communicators, and the one thing that we have is imagination. For me, it's really key to be able to insert conversations around science and all of those issues, in art centres. That's what creative hubs can do.