Welcome, everyone, to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, meeting eight. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are here for a strategic review of arts and culture program expenditures.
Today, during our first hour, our witnesses will be as follows: from the International Exchange for the Performing Arts, Alain Paré; Conseil québécois du théâtre, Martin Faucher; Canadian Dance Assembly, Shannon Litzenberger, executive director; and La La La Human Steps, Édouard Lock, artistic director.
Welcome. We will ask each of you for a short presentation, please, of around five minutes, if we can keep it to there. Then our questioning will be in five-minute segments.
Mr. Paré, would you like to go first, please.