Thank you so much for the question, MP Coteau. It's a good question.
In Toronto, the challenges that our members were facing due to the pandemic were triplefold. We were dealing—and continue to deal—with very expensive housing and venue costs. The affordability to continue operations.... Some of these smaller, non-venued, independent companies were amongst the companies that withdrew their memberships. They simply couldn't continue. These are companies that are non-venued, as I mentioned. They typically don't receive operating funding—only project funding. They're very small, independent, grassroots companies that are often producing very provocative, risk-taking work.
These are further impacted by the mental health impact in terms of working with very limited funds and few resources. It's what we call the balancing act. Like so many Canadians, we're juggling working from home with families and children—