Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question. I can tell you without hesitation that collaboration and partnership building has only advantages because, even if it is with the little town next door, it is about cultural exchange. Right now, we are working with the City of Gatineau, actually, as part of another project.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I agree with Mr. Vigneau when he says that the situation may have made us very good managers. In concrete terms, we need stability in the form of grants specifically for operations, in order to complete our financial package. We usually do four or five major projects a year through international partnerships.

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. I will answer quickly because it does not seem that I did so. The service that we provide to the artists is in organizing events. Our clients are the municipalities. We hire the artists and we pay them. Alternatively, they can rent the production spaces.

Canadian Heritage committee  In the beginning, the main problem was that municipalities refused to exhibit public art, but now, they are more open to that. They have even loosened certain rules. In the beginning, our works were considered like billposting, and municipal regulations had to be changed. Ten years later, there is a demand, population asks for these.

Canadian Heritage committee  When we started, we did not have an operating budget. We have not had one for 10 years. We designed quite a creative way that allows us to find funding and obtain partnerships, a clientele, if you will, in the municipal sector but sometimes also in the private sector, by organizing events.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I did not speak to that in my presentation. Under a contract with the Department of Canadian Heritage, we take works that were used in the “Unusual Passages” project and we reinstall them elsewhere and circulate them. The circulation of artworks is something we can increasingly work with, because there is a demand for that.

Canadian Heritage committee  We work outside, but we are regrouping with organizations to create a kind of cultural centre in Old Quebec. The building in question is a former fire hall with an area of 8,000 square feet. The city is renovating this place in order to meet the standards. This is the beginning of repositioning artists in the tourist development.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Honestly, I must say that I did not expect such a meeting. I thought it would be a little more intimate; I am quite impressed. My name is Vincent Roy. I am the founder and the Executive and Artistic Director of EXMURO arts publics. The organization's mandate is essentially to disseminate and design temporary public art projects in the public space.