Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage. In the last budget, the Minister of Finance announced an 8 per cent cut, over a three year period, to the postal program designed to subsidize the distribution of magazines and publications in Quebec and in Canada.
How does the Minister of Canadian Heritage explain that his officials indicated to Canadian publishers that the cut affecting the postal program was 24 per cent over 13 months, instead of 8 per cent over three years, as announced in the budget?