That's fantastic. Thank you for that.
Ms. Morin, you've led Arts on the Ave and helped establish initiatives, including the Kaleido Family Arts Festival and the Deep Freeze festival. In a few weeks, Mississauga's Celebration Square will become home to festivals and events weekly, if not almost daily, including World Cup watch parties and the Polish Days festival, which I think is coming up this Saturday, and countless others.
Cultural spending on festivals brings communities together in ways that very few other investments do. That can sometimes go unstated, and I'd like to give you the opportunity to speak to what these investments mean for Canadians, small businesses, artists and our country at large.