Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I will get right to the point.
Mr. Arsenault, after what you have just said, I am tempted to suggest to the committee that we ask the Auditor General to keep the money from the roadmap and the money from departments separate. But I don't know if we could ask the current Auditor General because he might have trouble communicating with you. So I will restrain myself.
However, I am still going to take advantage of this opportunity to tell you what will happen at the end of the meeting, since we are likely to go in camera. This has been the new way of doing things since the fall. I think it is very unpleasant and undemocratic, but what can I say? That's the way things are. I intended to move a motion asking that the committee invite the headhunter who recommended the appointment of the unilingual anglophone Auditor General. But I wanted to do so when one of our colleagues was here because he made it clear in his comments that he was offended by this appointment. Since he is not here, I will refrain from doing it. I know that it is starting to bother my colleagues opposite that I do this at every meeting. Perhaps they have found a way to stop me, but we will never know because it will take place in camera. We shall find out. Mr. Chair, it was not my intent to introduce my motions this morning.
I would like to raise another point that gets on their nerves, but that greatly concerns me. Some Conservative members have been submitting petitions to the House, asking to eliminate funding for the Société Radio-Canada entirely. Do you have anything to say about that?