Thank you for your questions.
I won't answer the second question, because it is really outside my field of expertise and competence.
Regarding artists' income, as my colleague Mr. Ripley explained earlier, we are following what is currently happening on the international scene very closely and keeping up to date on the approaches used for providing artists with more stable income. At present, there are a lot of pilot projects coming out of what was learned during the pandemic.
In addition, some other systems have been in place for a long time. In France, for example, there has been a law about entertainment industry casual workers since 1936. So this is by no means something new. It's a system that is actually based on recognition of casual work in the entertainment industry. In fact, it is an employment insurance system based on a certain number of hours worked. I think that system is worth considering.
I know that this precise responsibility in no way lies with the Department of Canadian Heritage or the Status of the Artist Act, but as Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, I think we have to argue for improving the systems for funding artists. As we know, this is one of the very rare sectors in society where there are more workers than jobs. There is no labour shortage in the arts sector. On the contrary: that sector is created and maintained based on the idea that there have to be more artists than available jobs. If we are prepared to accept that this is a necessary condition for our arts sector to be interesting and captivating, we have to find a fair way of remunerating artists, rather than obliging them to run from one contract to another, knowing full well that they will have long periods when they have no work.