Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I will wait until we've had presentations from the other witnesses to address questions concerning the entire program and where we believe things should be headed. However, there's a practical matter that I think needs to be addressed today.
Our witness mentioned the Young Canada Works program, that there are two components. As far as the summer component is concerned, the museums of Canada are basically the largest partner of Heritage Canada; I think they have 500 of the 800 jobs, just rounding off numbers here. As of mid-May, they were all told to hold off, that this was going to get done, but as of mid-June, last week, it hadn't been done. A number of museums, small museums and large ones, across the country are waiting--or they were as of last week anyhow--for a decision to be made out of Heritage.
I'm wondering if Madam Sherwood is in a position today to confirm that it's done and that these museums, and the four other partners as well in the Young Canada Works summer component, are now in a position to proceed with hiring their staff. It's been very late this year.