Of course. It allows for some continuity in the work. It would be a monumental challenge for any profession to live the way artists do, from one contract to the next and from one stage to the next. The creative process is extremely difficult. We are very grateful for the support that has been provided.
For example, increasing operations subsidies is a fundamental help to organizations that are funded in this way, obviously, but people who don't have access to operations subsidies fall through the cracks and can't seem to get out of that situation. I was talking about the new generation and diversity earlier. It is artists from these groups who find it difficult to access funding and support.
I'm moving from one topic to another, but we're going to do a big promotional campaign to build trust with audiences and so on, but the situation for workers remains the same. The Canada Performing Arts Workers Resilience Fund has been announced, and that's great news, but again, it's through the institutions and the representative organizations. So how do we support these artists with a social net? That's a huge question.
The revision of the Status of the Artist Act is obviously a solution, and the reform of employment insurance helps tremendously, but we need to create programs that will support individual artists. That is when we can best support artists.