Canadian Heritage committee  We are addressing it. We are very serious about that.

Canadian Heritage committee  I was there.

Canadian Heritage committee  I agree. I know that problem well, because before being at the council, I was the head of the theatre school for years and years. The level of application and the level of theatre training in Alberta was, and still is, very strong. I witnessed during 30 years a lot of very famo

Canadian Heritage committee  What we want to do is make sure that the success rate is equal. We want to make sure that anywhere in Canada—in Caraquet, Iqaluit, Montreal, Rimouski or Toronto—any artist applying to the Canada Council would have the same reasonable chance to get funding. The rate of success is

Canadian Heritage committee  The first thing I want to say, and I think it's really important, is that the per capita rationale cannot work. It can't work because of the way the Canada Council is operating: We are responding to the requests we get. When you think about the per capita argument and you really

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for having me. I am honoured to be here. The Canada Council for the Arts has had the enormous privilege of seeing its budget sharply increased. It is important for us to answer questions from parliamentarians, artists and the public on what we do with that money. By w

Canadian Heritage committee  If you're talking about the practice that we call “socially engaged” arts practice, yes, they will be supported. We are now trying to deconstruct or debunk the idea that the Canada Council should be the guardian of what the specific discipline is. For instance, there are organiz

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the invitation. Merci.

Canadian Heritage committee  I guess, if you want a simple test, the question is always, “What is the finality of what we're supporting?” In art, the finality is not a product or something that is necessarily useful or an object or an invention. It's art, and it's a contribution to advancement of culture. S

Canadian Heritage committee  First, I'll give you the example of the fund for the arts in a digital world, from the Council for the Arts. During its optimal year, 2021, the fund will represent a maximum of 9% of all our grants. It's a component, but it's clearly not a central component. For us, digital tech

Canadian Heritage committee  As I said earlier, we want to allocate 25% of our new investments to people who have never received council grants. This represents a major call for a breath of fresh air into the system. Moreover, we'll allow for more creation opportunities. Any observer can see that, for the p

Canadian Heritage committee  We have a portfolio that is in fact supporting part of the operations of the Canada Council, and especially the prizes of the Canada Council. These are endowed funds. The reason we have more revenue is both that we rebalanced that portfolio and also—because we're always on a cash

Canadian Heritage committee  Until now, peer assessment committees changed every year. Under the new funding model, we will have a combination of both systems. On the one hand, there will be permanent peer assessment committees. It will be very transparent, as everyone will know right from the outset who wil

Canadian Heritage committee  We are required to provide particular programs to support linguistic minority communities. We meet with those communities and deal directly with them. We try to determine their overall priorities. We have an adjustment mechanism to support special initiatives to allow outreach by

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you.