Mr. Chairman, I think there's a motion before us with attachments about a budget for travel. May I comment on the budget for travel first?
My understanding is that if we go, this would be for three days, which is the 11th, 12th, and 13th, so you need half of the hotel accommodations and you need half of the per diem. So already you've reduced this substantially. I would argue that if indeed there is a benefit for us to be there, there is also benefit for the participants of the festival, and that we should not be paying any conference registration fee. If the festival is not prepared to accept those conditions, then too bad. Finally, I suspect that if you look around for some cheaper airfares than $2,400, you'd be able to find them.
So I submit to you that this budget of $98,000 can be reduced by half fairly easily.