I'm not sure if an ad hoc committee is the best way to go. You have to understand that the 150th anniversary will be celebrated in five and a half years. We have a lot of time to come up with programming for all of Canada to include all the regions.
The committee is studying this and I hope that we will have a report or a list of recommendations. Specific events or even ideas for programming or investments might help us.
I feel that if we were to specifically say that these are the exact amounts and here is a committee... If the government were to prejudge the committee's work, you would probably say that the government is arrogant and that it has no respect for the efforts of the committee members. That's not what we want.
In all honesty, we want Canadians in 2017 to see the programming across Canada and say that the plan is just right for Canada, that it is not to the right or to the left, that it is far from politics, ideology, games and bickering.
That is why we want a careful and sensible study from you.