Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for coming today. It was an excellent presentation. I'm certainly encouraged by hearing about moving towards multi-year funding, because the issue of certainty is fundamental for any arts presenter.
My concern, though, if we're looking at an action plan, is that we have to find out where the bottlenecks are, and I'm not sure if I had that identified. I've heard a number of times that you say there are applications that weren't complete, maybe 40% or 60% of them. I could see that in a few cases, but when I'm dealing with arts presenters, they're pretty professional and know what they're doing, so I would wonder if that would be the main cause of it.
I'm looking at your grants and contributions management framework, with the legislation, the Federal Accountability Act that has to be checked off, the Financial Administration Act, the Auditor General Act, the whole policy of Treasury Board, risk management. So clearly there are a number of steps.
I don't see the minister's desk. How many projects would the minister review personally? How many of them would be grants and contributions? Does he see every one before it goes out? Is it a percentage? How does that work?