We gave a very good explanation for the masked ball, and I can repeat it for you. I will come back to the issue of the masked ball.
The sponsorship scandal and the sponsorship program are two different things altogether. The National Battlefields Commission was more of a victim than a recipient of the sponsorship program. In fact, at one point, the program hit us on the head like a two-by-four. All of a sudden, we learned that a study had been done in Quebec showing that the Plains of Abraham were considered as the federal government's visibility site in that province.
I asked the minister at the time, Mr. Gagliano, what that meant. He told me that the site would be used for various events. It is from that point on that the program began funding various events that were not—I repeat—under the commission's responsibility. It was—