I'm sorry; we did not have a surplus. The surplus you saw in the financial statement is a surplus on paper because of our investment. It has nothing to do with the money we had to spend.
As I said before, 90% of the new money we got has been spent and is right now in the hands of arts organizations and artists across Canada. All the provinces and all the regions of Canada have more money now than they had two years ago.
However, what is a difficult and complex issue is that we need to address the very uneven arts system in Canada on a lot of issues.
I had the chance to do a town hall in Alberta, and yes, I get some people who are unhappy; I also get a lot of letters from people who are very happy right now, because what we are trying to do is to support and grow what we could call the “independent artistic scene” and what we could call the “middle class” of the arts system in Alberta. We realized that it is very difficult to sustain an ecosystem where half the money would go to a handful of institutions.