We have studied the economic benefits. We estimate that the major events industry in Quebec supports 5,000 to 6,000 jobs. Those are the figures for Quebec; I do not have FAME data on the number of jobs across Canada, but using the rule of three, I would expect that the major events and festivals sector currently supports 15,000 jobs across the country.
This investment would certainly have an impact on the number of jobs and economic benefits. In recent years, we have seen that each investment maintains the ratio of economic benefits and jobs. For every investment in the festivals and events sector, there is a direct return in taxes, economic benefits and jobs in the same fiscal year.
I can deduce that such an investment would definitely boost jobs by more than 20%, roughly speaking, and have many economic, tax and incidental tax benefits.