Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I welcome the minister. I have sat with my honourable colleague for a number of years, and she's never given me any gifts.
I would like to ask whether, when you've finished listening, you can lend it to me so I can hear. I don't think that contravenes the Copyright Act, but I'd love to hear it anyway.
I'm pleased to have you here. There are many questions we could ask to try to get clarification. I'm interested, and I was looking through the estimates, because money in the arts sector will go a long way wherever it is placed. I know that certainly the small museums are still reeling from the cuts of a few years ago.
We're still reeling from the loss of our programs for international promotion of the arts, as well as the musical diversity cuts.
Then I see $25 million that has been floating out there for the Canada prize for the arts. I don't really see any timelines on that. I don't really know who is administering the fund. The fact that this is coming has been kicked around for a while, but where is it, who is going to administer it, and how is it going to work?