Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I will start by asking if you could provide us with the results of that recent survey the department conducted. Our researchers have referred to it a bit in the documents they prepared for today; however, a copy of the whole thing, I think, would be very helpful for us to have.
One of the big divides in the museum world in Canada is between museums that have a full-time professional curator and those that don't. My experience in talking to them is that you actually learn the most about museum challenges by talking to those that don't, because they are the ones dealing with all of the issues in the toughest ways.
As I understand it, that is one of the thresholds, though, for the museums assistance program. You have to have a professional curator for it, which locks out all these smaller community museums. Could you tell us the rationale for that, and if you think there is merit in considering to expand that program to also allow grants and contributions to non-curated museums?