Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses today for giving us some further information on a number of changes that are obviously going to make a significant difference for our important arts and cultural sector across the country.
One of the reasons that today's meeting is timely is that it gives department officials, yourselves, the opportunity to talk specifically about a number of changes you're putting in place. I'm glad to hear they're proceeding well.
I'm going to try to zone in on some of those changes.
First, though, I'd like to talk a bit about how PCH was initially selected to essentially be a vanguard agency, and also the process for becoming part of this specific identification and this blue ribbon panel, the results of that. Could you give us more specific items as to what the results were?
Maybe you could just start by talking about why PCH was identified.