Finance committee  Sure. A number of the arts organizations do work with Business / Arts, which attempts—and quite successfully—to get businesses to invest in the arts. This is really another way of providing funding to the arts: to encourage businesses to do so. There are many benefits for them i

Finance committee  I haven't seen the particular motion, but I suspect that if it's about a universal basic income, it would be strongly supported by the arts community. There have been a number of surveys, including our own, showing that artists see it as a real requirement to sustain ourselves th

Finance committee  It's incredible frustration. It's not so much that malls and stores might be open, because obviously people are passing through those. However, there's a similarity with those museums and galleries. It's the concern about the venues for performing arts in particular, where people

Finance committee  Yes. The situation for our members is rather precarious—like fame, in a way, but perhaps at a different level. Artists are basically unable to perform. In many cases they cannot rehearse. Their income predominantly comes from performing, creating, rehearsing, etc. Without that,

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. It's an honour to be speaking with you this afternoon. As you may know, the Canadian Arts Coalition is a body of arts organizations across the country. It is non-partisan and collaborative and is made up of major arts organizati