I don't know if this was raised in my brief absence, but we had a witness come before us who suggested that Heritage Canada stop directly funding museums through the MAP program, for example, and that an arm's-length funding agency like the Canada Council be created. He said if you look at the history and the facts and the evidence, you'll see that when the federal government did that for the arts, in the long run the funding for the arts went up. Somehow creating a Canada Council had the effect of creating a lobby group at the same time, and for whatever reason, the empirical evidence shows that it was good for arts funding in Canada.
I'm just curious as to what you think of that idea.