Mr. Speaker, be patient. It is not Wednesday yet.
When she announced the television production fund, which will get 75 per cent of its budget from Heritage Canada, the minister told us that from now on, her department would sit on the fund's board of directors, which is unprecedented for a department with a cultural role to play.
My question is directed to the Minister of Canadian Heritage. How does the minister think she will improve cultural production by doing away with a long tradition of independence vis-à-vis government in the distribution of funds to creative artists?