Good day.
My question is again addressed to Mr. Roy.
Mr. Roy, I would like to hear your opinion on a measure I'm going to suggest to you that could help both major events like the Quebec Summer Festival and smaller events like the Festival de la Gourgane d'Albanel.
I was talking to some people from Festivalma recently. Bryan Adams was due to perform there and the organizers had paid a deposit on his fee. However, the ticket service they're dealing with won't give the money back until the show has taken place. This is a problem, because the show has been postponed to next year.
Do you think it would be a good idea for the government to offer an interest-free guaranteed loan to support this burden up to the amount of the total deposit, until the show takes place? Once the show has taken place, the government will be able to get its money back fairly quickly since the box office will pay out the proceeds from tickets already sold. At the end of the day, it will not have cost anyone anything, because the financial burden will have been borne by the government.