Thank you very much.
When the MAP was announced for cuts, of the hundreds of millions of dollars the heritage department oversees, that was one of the few programs specifically targeted. I was there when the Treasury Board minister made the statement and said they are going after the wasteful, inefficient, and out of touch programs.
Then the heritage minister came before us, and during that meeting, as Mr. Bélanger explained, Mr. Fast dropped what I thought was somewhat of a bombshell, in that he produced numbers showing that millions of dollars weren't spent year after year in the MAP program. So we specifically asked the minister.
We weren't talking about Young Canada Works, we were talking about MAP, whether or not MAP money had been used or hadn't been used. The minister's assistant said on the record.... I asked how it could be possible that all these museums have been begging for money and never bothered to use this money, and he said it was an issue of sophistication.
So someone's playing fast and loose with the facts here, and I'm wanting to know, at the very least, do you feel your organizations are country bumpkins and can't fill out forms that can be used by the Department of Heritage?