In various regions of the country, recently renovated infrastructure has what is needed, in terms of physical spaces, to become creative centres. During our presentation, we highlighted the necessity or need to animate those spaces. We do have 22 member organizations. We are a federation, as are a number of our members. That is why I was saying earlier that we represent over 3,000 artists and more than 150 organizations, across Canada. They all have a very specific mandate, but we in no case have the mandate or the funding necessary to animate those creative centres.
By definition, a creative centre brings people together. Those buildings are designed to provide a physical location where a certain potential exists in terms of the population. What we provide is the social element. Our communities are small and rural, located in remote regions. The social element does not exist in the current concept of a creative centre. That is in great part the point we wanted to emphasize today.