Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
The minister recently published a brochure promoting National Volunteer Week. This brochure emphasizes the importance of volunteer work in our communities and pays tribute to the 13 million volunteers in Quebec and Canada who give their time to the disadvantaged, the needy and the neglected.
How can the minister stress the merits of and need for volunteer work when the funds allotted to voluntary organizations have fallen from $1,066,000 in 1993-94 to $65,000 in 1995-96, a 94 per cent cut?