First of all, I want to say thank you to the minister for taking the time to come to the committee today and share some of his views.
As we go across the country in some of these tough economic times, I and many of the other MPs around this table will appreciate the fact that the government does have to make choices, does have to take serious consideration in regard to seeing what programs are effective and provide the most efficiency. You were talking about the Trade Routes program, the cost of delivering the program being $5 million and having a $2 million benefit. I can tell you there are a number of people who did see advantages in that, and that $2 million also did provide substantial investments.
So you went across the board, did the analysis of the programs, made the $45 million in cuts. When programs like Trade Routes or PromArt were cut, what types of programs have you put in place in your new program investments to help these new emerging artists and other artists who utilize these particular programs?