Thank you, Chair.
My question is for Mr. Rubinoff and Ms. Bator.
In your submission to the committee, you stated that in the summer of 2021, you had an opportunity to sit down with officials at Heritage. You said that during that meeting, staff from the ministry articulated that the prevailing opinion at Heritage was that commercial theatre did not contribute to Canadian culture. I find that particularly interesting and somewhat troubling.
Can you expand on that a bit, especially in light of the play Come From Away and the dramatic impact that it has had in other countries?
Perhaps you'd care to comment, Mr. Rubinoff.