Nobody would expect a manufacturing sector to thrive without factories. Yet we routinely expect creative sectors to thrive without studios, incubators, archives, labs, registries, rehearsal spaces or business support organizations. That expectation has never made sense.

Imagine if every restaurant in the Caribbean depended on grants to remain open. Or every hotel. Or every shipping company. We would immediately recognise this as a structural problem.

Catalysing Caribbean-Canada Collaboration on Indigenous Peoples Affairs for Resilient Prosperity