With respect to arts and culture, I would add that more and more cities and provinces want to become leaders who are more involved. In recent years, people have changed their tune and the arts and culture are no longer necessarily considered simply a form of recreation or like the Friday night show. People are now really understanding the contribution made by the arts and culture from various standpoints: social cohesion, economic development, job creation, the promotion of competition, etc.
This requires that our organizations do even more representational work. It becomes very complex at the federal level. Indeed, when you look at the complexity at the federal level, and try to find where all the arts and culture files are located, it's like a puzzle. However, when you add the complexities involved at the provincial and municipal government levels, and they are players now, it must be admitted that the organizations need tools to be able to do the representation work required.
For the municipalities, it is a double or triple challenge, because not all the municipalities consider official languages an obligation, but rather an area in which they must intervene.
