Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
The recently published public accounts reveal that the Minister of Canadian Heritage awarded a grant of $5 million to the Bronfman Foundation to fund historical vignettes on Canada's heritage for television broadcast. His own officials recommended a grant of only $1 million.
How does the minister explain his decision to give the Bronfman Foundation five times the amount his officials recommended, when he is cutting subsidies to francophone associations outside Quebec and everywhere in the area of cultural development?