Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all of the presenters for their excellent presentations. I'm actually going to start off with Musicaction and the Canadian Independent Music Association. The power and the need for music in our arts is critical to Canada's mental health, our quality of life, our social cohesion and our national unity, and it's vital to our economy—unequivocally. We don't hear enough about it, but it's absolutely vital, and I say that genuinely.
I hear your ask, which is basically to increase funding to $60 million. Thank you for clarifying the $500-million comment. Maybe I'll direct my comment to Mr. Cash.
At a time when we have an affordability crisis and a housing crisis, could you explain why we should continue to make—and I believe we should make it a priority—funding the arts, funding music, a priority?