We have not heard back from the minister.
The last budget included the extension, until 2026, of one of the two programs I was talking about, the Building Communities through Arts and Heritage Program. However, there was a deafening silence, not a word in the budget, about the other program, the Canada Arts Presentation Fund. That's what worries us.
We don't need to convince the Minister of Canadian Heritage of the importance of these programs, and his officials are well aware of it too. We've therefore reached the point of calling on the Minister of Finance, because we feel that this is really where the stumbling block lies.