Yes, okay, I appreciate it. And I appreciate the work that everybody does in that field.
We also heard about the adding to the production side. We heard that yesterday, and I had some questions on it.
To Mr. Pineau, we also heard from Orchestras Canada yesterday about more money for the Canada Council for the Arts. We're at $180 million now. We added $20 million a couple of years ago, and then $30 million became permanent last year, I believe it was. You're asking for $40 million over, I think, the next four years--not just for one year, not one shot--to get you to $300 million.
Try to help me justify to my constituents why your organization gets a 22% increase in a very tough year. How am I, as an individual of this committee, supposed to recommend a 22% increase, not just this year but every year? It's like a 60% increase over the next number of years. That's a pretty tough number to swallow.
I want to know why you came up with such a large number in this particular budget.