Thank you everyone for placing your trust in me and for electing me chair of the committee.
I want to tell you that I'm thrilled to be here. I'm very much looking forward to chairing the Canadian heritage committee and working with all of you.
Welcome to the 22nd meeting of our committee.
I've asked committee members if they want to discuss our upcoming fall agenda.
I want to seek consent here to go into committee business to talk about what we're going to do this autumn so you can give the chair and the clerk some direction as to how you want the next 13 meetings to unfold.
Before I go to Mr. Angus and then Mr. Del Mastro, I'll just point out that we left the committee in June with the unfinished digital media study. That's one item we need some direction on, as to whether or not you want to continue that, how many more meetings you want on that, and when you want to wrap that up.
The second two items are that we have two motions in front of the committee--one moved by Monsieur Rodriguez, and one by Madame Lavallée--concerning the CBC and the marquee tourism program respectively.
We also have in front of our committee a private member's bill from Mr. Norlock, which I understand he would like us to deal with. I don't think it would take more than one or two meetings.
We also have an order in council that has been distributed to all the members of the committee concerning the appointment of Mr. Jim Silye, of Arnprior, Ontario, to the board of trustees of the National Museum of Science and Technology. If the committee wants to review that, it's another option.
That's all the business in front of the committee.
We'll begin with Mr. Angus.