Canadian Heritage committee  No, I am not saying it is part of arts and culture grants, but it is a grant provided by the department.

Canadian Heritage committee  If you give me a moment, yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  That is correct, $1.3 billion.

Canadian Heritage committee  It can be hard to pinpoint certain figures among others, but I will take—

Canadian Heritage committee  I will take the question regarding the estimates we started the year with. So we are talking approximately $1.2 billion, because there was additional funding after that. For official languages, it is around $360 million. For cultural industries, it is approximately $208 million.

Canadian Heritage committee  It includes a large chunk of our contributions, our programs, in terms of museums. That is included in that category.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm going to try to answer briefly. First, I want to do away with the idea that we are taking away a person's right to sell their medal. As Ms. Elliot Sherwood explained, for medals and insignia that have cultural importance for Canada, what is done is to call a pause in the process to give Canadian institutions a chance to buy the medals and keep them in Canada.

Veterans Affairs committee  We have that number somewhere, if you'll just give us a moment.

Veterans Affairs committee  Without knowing all the precise recommendations put forward by the Legion, I will have to comment that if we are looking to control or to have an opportunity to have oversight before medals or insignia of cultural and national importance leave the country, then there may be some consideration given to using the export act or a structure like the export control act.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you again for inviting us to make this presentation to the committee. We are pleased to be here today to assist the committee in its consideration of private member's bill C-473. We thought it would be useful to provide some context for the bill in terms of existing federal legislation.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The short answer--and I'm just confirming--is no. There is not a place where you will see on a departmental website right now the recommendations and the current status, I guess, of progress against the recommendations. I think that has to be one of the mechanisms we would have to look at as part of our engagement to strengthen the reporting and the follow-up to the periodic review.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Well, I think it's happening both ways. As part of the Universal Periodic Review process, specific consultations were held with civil society and aboriginal groups. Then, I would suggest, any department that has leadership around a certain policy domain has its own processes about how it engages its stakeholders in those policy consultations and discussions.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It could well be. Yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think the role of the committee is to make sure that all members of the federal family and our colleagues in the provinces and territories are aware of the obligations they have all agreed to as part of the treaty, and that there's a way of communicating the progress made where recommendations have action items attached to them, and a way to make folks aware of where there are issues or where we're not making the progress we would want.