Canadian Heritage committee  It is all well and good to invest in digital, but you have to have a quality recording at the outset. We therefore need assistance to go into the studio and hire musicians. My dear sir, the international outreach of specialized music sometimes precedes that of singers or musicians making popular Canadian music.

Canadian Heritage committee  They were not aware of that.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't know.

Canadian Heritage committee  As for me, I found out about it by calling the Canada Council for the Arts. We had certain questions, and we learned that there was only one date available, and that afterwards, the program would cease to exist.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, but...

Canadian Heritage committee  On July 31, there was talk of increasing the envelope of another program, but there was no mention of eliminating those programs.

Canadian Heritage committee  I myself am a member of ADISQ. I don't know why. Are you a member?

Canadian Heritage committee  Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Carole Therrien, I am from Montreal, and my job titles are many: opera, classical, baroque and jazz singer; music writer and composer; and, lastly, producer, manager and, together with the bass player Alain Bédard, co-founder of the contemporary jazz label, Effendi.