Canadian Heritage committee  In all honesty, I think the situation is extremely complex. For arts funding in Canada, there is the system of federal legislation and there is the system of provincial legislation. At present, at the Canada Council for the Arts, when we support an organization, we make sure tha

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for your questions. I won't answer the second question, because it is really outside my field of expertise and competence. Regarding artists' income, as my colleague Mr. Ripley explained earlier, we are following what is currently happening on the international scene

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. Actually, over the years, and especially over the last two years, we created a system at Canada Council where people could apply. Their demands are assessed, and we support their demands on a merit basis. However, we also make sure that we calibrate the level of succe

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. There are streams of funding for training. During the pandemic, it was incredibly important for artists all across the country, no matter what they did, to master more digital capacities, production, dissemination, and presentation. It is very encouraging to see that

Canadian Heritage committee  Normally, we distribute money through a jury process. Artists or organizations apply to the Canada Council and juries made of specialist artists are assessing each demand. They decide how and what money will be received. During the pandemic—last year and the year before—a lot of

Canadian Heritage committee  Actually, you're right. In the arts sector, we have some artists working permanently for companies, like Stratford, or other big companies, but most of the artists are moving from one project to another. That's the reality. In between those projects, they are trying to survive, c

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Hello everyone. Thank you for inviting me to contribute to your work. The Canada Council for the Arts plays a fundamental role in supporting the country's artistic ecosystem as a whole. For more than 60 years, we have been providing subsidies to individua

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much.

Canadian Heritage committee  You're right that it's a challenge. At the same time, we committed.... In the context of the doubling of the funds for the council, we're tripling investment in indigenous arts, so there are resources. Our work is to make sure that we work with local partners to ensure that we re

Canadian Heritage committee  We try to do everything. Sometimes we work with what we call NASOs, national arts service organizations, across Canada, such as the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective. Sometimes we work with local organizations, sometimes national ones. We use every possible way of presenting the c

Canadian Heritage committee  I agree.

Canadian Heritage committee  At the same time, I think it's fantastic because the Canada Council has been doing work with indigenous artists for 30 years. We are one of the organizations in this country that has the most experience and trust with indigenous artists. I think the question now is to scale up wh

Canadian Heritage committee  Three years ago we did a kind of survey. We tried to see what was happening worldwide with the arts sector. What happened in fact with digital is that the disruption really happened in the cultural industries, in the music industry first and then in film, with digital screens and

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. Any time. I went already—