Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to thank everyone. These presentations have been very eloquent, as I think the cultural community is—in any case, we would like to think so—progressive in nature to begin with, and probably more so than other sectors.
Ms. Burns, you talked about the fact that change should come from the top. Of course, both you and your board of trustees are perfect examples of that. However, I sometimes wonder whether we have an issue with middle management in society when it comes to achieving parity.
We can have organizations like yours that promote parity in concrete terms, from top to bottom, but we have a problem. Could we do something to generate interest in those positions among candidates likely to be interested in occupying them?
For example, I am thinking of the testimony of a volunteer from the Musée de la femme in Longueuil, who once organized an activity for women in order to encourage them to participate in the boards of directors of businesses she was familiar with and to apply.
Entrepreneur Alexandre Taillefer took the time to make a presentation to encourage women to apply for these positions. Would that kind of an initiative be an example of what we could accomplish? In my opinion, you have some good examples to tap into and show. However, natural candidates do not seem to be common.