Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I think that this is an exciting time because we are in the process of combining all of our arts funding within ITI, and I think what -- and my vision of doing this is being able to bring all of these funding opportunities together to a one-stop shop. And it also allows us to have conversation -- like, more fulsome conversations about what it is that artists need. And I think I've said in this House before that having sat through some of the art strategy engagement in 2019, I heard a lot of the same things that I heard as a 5-year-old sitting through art strategy type engagements with my mother back in the day with a lot of the same players and advocates sitting around the table and still asking for some of the same things, and so I think this is an opportunity to bring those voices together, bring the funding together, and be able to look at opportunities to stack that funding together, and within the arts council funding as well comes a position in order to look at just that. How do we take this funding and actually extrapolate it and grow it so that we are increasing the opportunities for artists within the territory? Because I don't think there's a single person in this room that would disagree on the absolute value of art across our territory. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Caitlin Cleveland on Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
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