Thank you very much.
Thank you for your presentations. I'd like to ask Mr. Fournier a few questions.
You referred to the scandal involving the communications agencies. I think the search for visibility was one of the problems in the case of the sponsorship program. From the moment the funds were granted to meet visibility needs rather than to support the festivals or develop our economy, the program went off on a political tangent and suffered the abuses we now know about. That was specific to that program. When the government grants funds to unemployed workers, artists or any other group, it doesn't ask that an enormous banner bearing the word “Canada” be used.
Having regard to that, do you think that an ordinary grants program the purpose of which would simply be to support festivals and our local economies rather than achieve visibility could meet your needs?