I'll just add to that. Further to not being consulted...the territorial and provincial museums associations get together probably twice a year to discuss issues such as MAP funding and summer student funding, and we have sent letters to the Minister of Canadian Heritage on both issues. I don't believe we received a response from the minister on either of those issues.
With MAP this year, our main issue is that people who have put in funding applications for MAP in November still hadn't heard come February. To try to plan a museum and projects around that sort of timeline is just impossible.
Then with the consultations we did have in the previous museums policy, I think we made it very clear that we needed more funding, not less funding. So the announcement last week was a bit of a shock.