Thank you very much, Madame Chair.
Thank you very much, Minister, for coming today.
I've listened to your opening remarks and you've clearly indicated a set of savings. You gave examples, which I appreciate, but somehow there were some examples that were missed. I just wanted to highlight those that you have not brought to the attention of the committee in your opening remarks: the $5 million cut from Status of Women Canada; the $10 million elimination of the youth international internship program; the $11 million elimination of the first nations and Inuit tobacco control strategy; $18 million for the literacy skills program, which I will come to later on; $55 million for the youth employment initiative; and $6 million for the court challenges program, to just name a few of the cuts that you didn't indicate.
You indicated that the decision to make these cuts was based on the premise that you wanted to eliminate waste and that you wanted good value for money. In your opinion, concerning these cuts for women, for aboriginal people, for youth, and specifically for minorities, for literacy skill programs, are they considered a waste and not a good value for money?