Canadian Heritage committee  It's a very interesting question. I want to look at the office of the visual artist laureate through a lens similar to the one we would look through at the office of the poet laureate. We are looking at having an individual identified in that role who is also playing the role of

Canadian Heritage committee  It's obviously an area of great preoccupation for many of us who are working in the cultural sector. We do find ourselves in a somewhat reactive mode, trying to keep pace. I can tell you that, in terms of our colleagues within the department, within the portfolio and within the b

Canadian Heritage committee  If I may just add, again, I think it's an emerging area, and the parties that are involved in bringing forward the recommendations are really going to bring expertise and will be wrestling with these questions. In that respect, faith can be put in their capacity to wrestle with t

Canadian Heritage committee  I feel comfortable with Ms. Lank's characterization. I don't think it does any harm or damage to the bill to be explicit about digital if this was the will of the committee.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. If I may, I'd like to address the first question about the digital, and I'd like to maybe draw a distinction between the discipline and the medium. The way the statute currently reads, what we have is identified a series of disciplines that would fall un