Mr. Chair, I am pleased to participate tonight. I will be sharing my time with my great colleague from Ottawa South and my dynamic new colleague from Vancouver Quadra. I thank the minister for mentioning the score in the hockey game. I think that is apropos. I will just add that both of those Pittsburgh goals have been scored by Sydney Crosby from Coal Harbour.
I would like to ask the minister a simple question referring back to a black day in history, September 25, 2006, when he announced $2 billion in cuts. Does he recall how much he cut from literacy in that cut?