Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to touch on this subject very briefly.
The opposition parties, with all due respect, want to be able to put forward negative lines of questioning. And any time our respected witnesses want to give credit to the government, as Mr. Paré did during the question from the parliamentary secretary, immediately points of order are made. It doesn't seem fair to the witnesses that they're not able to provide their positive reinforcement of what the government has done. And I want to remind people under the previous Liberal government, the number was brought forward of how much was made. It wasn't a reflection on the witness but rather a reflection on the previous Liberal government, which only gave $47,000. The NDP will never be in government. They continue to vote against any kind of inflation toward arts and culture.
And so we're simply putting our position forward so that the witnesses can comment.