Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Heard, I'm very interested in your recommendation about needing an arm's-length agency. One of the issues that has developed over the cuts to the MAP program is that many people have been speaking about major problems we seem to be seeing in terms of the inflexibility of the bureaucracy at Canadian Heritage in terms of meeting the needs of museums, the fact that it seems, on average, that about 25% of that budget was being rolled back into Treasury and not put into programs.
I'm looking to see from you how you would see an arm's-length agency set up. Would it be similar to the Canada Council? Would it have peered juries? And from your experience, in terms of money that's being spent overseeing the project in Ottawa right now, would there be greater money available, then, to actually put into the field?