Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon to the three of you. Thank you for being here today. A few weeks ago, I introduced a motion to obtain documents from you justifying the budget cuts. You have read that motion; it was extremely precise. Its purpose was to request all analyses, reports and audits prepared by the Department of Canadian Heritage serving as a basis for the government's decision not to renew funding allocated to a series of programs, an exhaustive list which we have here.
We've received four documents. The first is the Formative Evaluation of Trade Routes 2003. We were in power at the time. That evaluation has nothing to do with the 2007-2008 evaluation you refer to. The second document is the Formative Evaluation of Canadian Culture Online, which was produced in 2004. Here again, it was produced well before the current evaluation. The same is true of the third document, the Formative Evaluation of the Canadian Arts and Heritage Sustainability Program 2004. Lastly, the audit of the Canada Magazine Fund was conducted in 2003. All these documents were prepared in 2003 or 2004, that is to say a number of years before the evaluation you refer to.
I don't know whether someone has an odd sense of humour or whether there has been a mistake, but you definitely did not rely on these documents in advising the government to make cuts.