Thank you, Minister.
Obviously, you've met with representatives from the commercial theatre sector. You've heard the concerns. Come From Away, the greatest Canadian success in musicals in Canada, is currently being performed in cities around the world but not here in Canada. I think that's a greatly unfortunate irony.
One thing we've heard is that other jurisdictions have strong tax measures encouraging live theatre performances. New York State is obviously one of them. Here in Canada we have certain measures encouraging television and theatre production in Canada, which have been shown to be great successes.
As minister, would the department consider extending that type of provision to live theatre productions for the commercial theatre sector, as well as to the not-for-profit and non-profit theatre sectors? Many of us have those types of theatres in our ridings.