I'd like to call this meeting to order.
The first part of our meeting today will be one hour. Seeing the clock at 3:35, it will be 4:35 when the meeting is over.
Welcome to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, meeting number six. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are undertaking a strategic review of arts and culture program expenditures.
I welcome today our witnesses: John Lambert, chair of John Lambert and Associates Inc.; Robin Jackson, executive director, Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund; Max Berdowski, executive director and chief executive officer, Canadian Screen Training Centre; and Marc Robitaille, screenwriter. I hope I was correct in pronouncing everyone's name.
In the first round you each will have an opportunity for a five-minute introduction to us, and then we will be going on five-minute questions and answers as we go around. We'll be sticking as closely as we can to the five minutes because we want to make sure we can get as many questions answered as we can in this hour.
We start off with Mr. Lambert, if you would, sir.