Well, Mr. Chair, having come onto the committee after the Lincoln report was done, I can say there was a sense out there that all this work had been done, and now we're in a new government, a new Parliament, and all that work is put by the side. We had reintroduced that in the last Parliament because we felt it did deserve a response from the government, because it laid out a plan, a road map. And it was very important for us to hear from the minister where she saw the Lincoln report fitting into government strategy.
I think at the end of the day we still felt we never did get a really comprehensive commitment on the Lincoln report that was worth the work that had gone into it.
I certainly don't think, from my experience in the 38th Parliament, that making that request ground down the heritage bureaucrats to the level that they couldn't function any more. My God, we'd be in a pretty sad state of affairs if asking the heritage ministry to respond to a document that everyone is very familiar with and asking this government where they're going, how they see the Lincoln report, how they see the feature film study is going to throw all the consultation out the window. I can't see that happening, quite frankly.
Consultations are ongoing. Direction is being taken. I think what we're asking is how do these reports, which involved a great deal of work and effort, fit into that broad picture? That's what we're asking for, and I think it's a fairly straightforward, reasonable request.