Welcome, everyone, on this lovely August afternoon. Not too often do we meet this early in the session, but this is a planning session today so that when we get back we can have things all set up, so that we can get right down to business once the House comes back in September. As I go forward, I guess I'm going to call the first meeting of the next session...well, I guess it's not. It's meeting 38 of the session we are already in.
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(4), a meeting has been requested by four members of the committee, and the subject is this: “We, the undersigned members of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, request that a committee meeting be called pursuant to Standing Order 106(4) to discuss the recent cancelling of federal cultural financial assistance programs.”
Would someone like to speak to the motion?
Mr. Coderre.