I would like to come back to the sequence of events. On May 10, newspapers in Quebec announced that the budget for the FrancoFolies had been cut by $1.5 million. In fact, we learned at that time that the FrancoFolies had not received the grant they were perfectly eligible to receive. They met all the criteria and more so. For example, the first criterion is to have at least 250,000 participants; there were 823,400 festival participants in 2009. So, as we all know, the FrancoFolies met all the criteria. There was no reason to exclude that event. The organizers found out less than a month before the event was to begin that they would not be receiving the $1.5 million they were counting on and had expected to receive, given that they met all the criteria and it was normal to operate along those lines under the circumstances.
You said earlier that you found out in June and that you subsequently went to Treasury Board to defend your plan. I'd like to know when you had initial discussions with the Department or officials with respect to this program. What was the sequence of events? How is it that you were able to secure this funding?