Thank you very much for the question. You're right that we have been engaging with them, and it's so important to engage with them. Who am I to say, “Okay, this is exactly what you need”? They know better than we do what they need and what they're going through.
As I said, we've been there from day one, from 2015 to the beginning of the pandemic—when we came in with different programs—and then, in budget 2021, with almost $2 billion. Even after all of that support, there are some people—mainly in the gig industry, the travailleurs autonomes—who are still suffering, people who have no more venues where they can sing and play and do what they do best. We need that transitional program. We promised it in the platform.
I've been consulting and I have here a list of people. I don't even know how many people there are, but I have been working with them. I'm thinking of my friends from the Bloc. We also met with the UDA and different organizations in Quebec. We met with ACTRA. We met with the Creators Coalition and so many others.
We want to make sure we work with these foundations, guilds and unions, so that we are able to send the money directly to the people who need it.