Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all of our panellists for being here today, and expressing the importance of what you're doing.
I would like to continue that line of questioning with Mr. Brault. You mentioned that 50% of the recipients were first time, that balance between core funded and first-time recipients. Previously, that had been a barrier, because independent artists had difficulty getting grants.
Do you have a rough breakdown of the amounts of grants, sizes of the organizations, and the number of applicants that apply? It sounds like these independent artists are getting the same opportunities. In my experience, those smaller financial supports to independent artists have a compounded beneficial result.
With the newer model that you had in the past year, would you consider using that same model moving forward?