Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for appearing here today. I appreciate your taking the time to make your presentations to the committee.
The first thing I want to make clear is that we've heard an awful lot of discussion about PromArt. As you're well aware, PromArt is not a file within the Department of Canadian Heritage, it's a Foreign Affairs program. It's not within the scope of the study before us. That said, I appreciate hearing your comments on that.
Mr. Paré, I wanted to come back to you. I've done some research on CINARS, and I pulled up the funding history on CINARS going back to 1991. I found CINARS had received about $1.1 million, roughly, in total federal government funding since 1991; $405,000 of that is in the last two fiscal years under our government. So up until the point we were government, you averaged $47,000 per year and you've averaged a little over $200,000 under our government. Yet you've been a harsh critic, I think it's fair to say, of our government.
Do you think maybe you're not being fully open with folks when you're talking about the level of support you're receiving from our government, from the government in general?