Canadian Heritage committee  I would completely echo that. Just to follow up on what David was saying, I completely agree with him. I think the mechanism for this is to have partner meetings to find the relevant person in the provincial, municipal, or territorial government and a few of the key other partne

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I'll expand on that. For me, the obvious inspiration is the Halifax Central Library, which is just a brilliant example of expanding the notion of what a library is. I think anybody who has been there will notice that it's packed all the time. It functions, really, as a ver

Canadian Heritage committee  We're a one-person organization that presides as an umbrella over a whole bunch of other one-person organizations that all have their own boards and this sort of thing. It's a massively inefficient system, yet because of the requirements of funding, we have to stick to our box an

Canadian Heritage committee  Hello. Thank you very much for inviting me to appear before this committee. I'm Mark Sandiford. I'm the Executive Director of Creative P.E.I. We're the sector council for the cultural and creative industries in Prince Edward Island. As with every province and territory, the cul