The proposal in the briefing documents suggests that about half of that would go to touring. It goes two ways. One way is to bring presenters here to Canada to see the product so that they can then book at such things as the Hong Kong festival and Singapore. Beijing has all these fantastic new facilities that they need to program. So they can see the product here and know what they can then bring.
The support for opera, for example--because that's what I know--is extremely expensive. Typically what we've seen is that presenters in Asia can cover about half the cost. We obviously don't expect to go without getting private funding, and that's where companies will support us, particularly companies like BMO and Sun Life, who are very active and know that when we are there they have a prime opportunity to align on a values base.
So the program would work. Doing it through the Canada Council I think would be really useful because it's juried. They can go on artistic merit, and really it's highly respected by the arts organizations. That would be great.