Canadian Heritage committee  No, it's artists who are eligible for the Canada Council.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's an excellent question. Your question is very important because it helps to debunk the discussion on per capita. If we look at the far north just on a per capita basis, we would not even pay attention to it, but we do pay a lot of attention to it because we think it's a momen

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure.

Canadian Heritage committee  I must say that the Canada Council is an organization that is very well known across Canada, especially by artists. Just to give you a sense, one of the programs we are administering on top of the other six is the public lending right commission. It's 17,000 writers in Canada who

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a good question. As I said, because the money was incremental over five years, we started by reinvesting first in organizations. There are hundreds and hundreds of organizations supported by the council. Now that this job is almost done, most of the new money every year is f

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a good question. After learning a month ago that I had a second mandate at the Canada Council, I was elected—the first time for a Canadian and a francophone—chair of the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies, which includes 90 countries in the world

Canadian Heritage committee  It's because we are reinventing ourselves, and we did not take all the money to give to the people who were already entitled to it.

Canadian Heritage committee  No. We were very pleased.

Canadian Heritage committee  We have almost finished the work, because a lot of those recommendations addressed the old funding model. The new funding model has been crafted to answer those deficiencies. Frankly, at this point, we're on track on every recommendation. It was a very important report for us. I

Canadian Heritage committee  However, it got to the point where, after examining developments in the arts sector, we concluded we could have created 100 more programs over the past four years to recognize all the other artistic disciplines. So we decided to stop using that approach and to introduce non-disc

Canadian Heritage committee  So we have a program to support our artists internationally. Then we have a program to provide support for indigenous arts and another for dissemination in Canada. We also have the explore and create program, which focuses on artistic creation and is intended for all artistic cre

Canadian Heritage committee  We still use that system.

Canadian Heritage committee  We still work with peers. Last year, some 550 peers came to Ottawa to conduct assessments. We use the same assessment system, but the way to get into the system is less focused on the person's discipline — theatre, for example — and much more on the nature of what that person doe