Mr. Pomerleau, the strategic review done by the Department of Canadian Heritage was carried out in a way that was very similar to that adopted by all the other departments that had to undergo a strategic review. We studied all the expenditures and all the programs of the department to try to determine the 5% of the programs that are now out of date. The minister gave the example of the culture.ca website. The site was built before the arrival of Goggle and Yahoo, and it was quickly replaced by these search engines, which are much more efficient now than anything that the government could try to do. We really do not have the technology to keep up, as they do.
Therefore, these kinds of programs were considered. All these recommendations were submitted to the cabinet and the decisions were made by the cabinet. The documents as such are considered to be cabinet documents and we are not allowed to distribute them.
However, I can tell you that in many cases, decisions are based on studies and evaluations, and in other cases, on plain common sense. For instance, the fact was considered that very few people used the culture.ca site, and using it costs $1.90 per visit. This is how we actually studied all the programs.