Finance committee  I'll certainly refer you to information from CARFAC, which is essentially the Canadian artists' union. They have detailed information about exactly what the financial benefit would be to individual artists, examples of things that have happened recently and some specific numbers.

Finance committee  I could say specifically that more funding and more support are needed to increase the amount of information that is available for that sector. We do have the basics. We have the larger-picture numbers, but we don't have the details, so the Canadian Crafts Federation is joining t

Finance committee  We've just begun to reach out to them, to start to look at what building blocks we actually need to put together to bring this forward. There is a system in place for us to put forward a proposal, and we're working with our educational partners to try to see where those pockets a

Finance committee  Honourable Chair and esteemed members of the committee, thank you for inviting us to participate today. The Canadian Crafts Federation represents a broad sector of artisans and makers from a wide variety of disciplines. Craft is a vibrant and active component of the larger cultu