I just want to make sure there's real clarity on what the overriding influence is in terms of how the Cultural Olympiad is being put together. If you had attended the opening night in Vancouver on February 12, you would have walked away with the impression that we had the cultural aspects of this down right. The entire show was in both languages; it was culturally diverse, but there was a very strong component from French Canada on stage performing. You would have walked away and concluded that we had tried to respect the major cultures of the country and some of the others. I think you would have said that, given all of what we have to do, we have our vision in the right place.
On April 29th, 2008. See this statement in context.