Mr. Speaker, if the Bloc Québécois had voted in favour of the budget presented by the Conservatives in this House, a budget that was missing $45 million for artists, I am sure we would not be where we are in the polls today, that is, at 40%. The Conservatives, on the other hand, are at only 10% in Quebec.
Everything he said is true. All the numbers he gave are more or less accurate, but there are gaping holes nonetheless. Artists are missing a portion of their funding, because the Conservative government took it away from them. Artists are missing the financial assistance that allowed them to tour and present their work abroad. In that regard, $7 million is missing: $4 million for PromArt and $3 million for Trade Routes. That is how much money is missing at this time, funding that allowed our artists to tour abroad. There are no existing programs that provide sufficient subsidies to allow them to tour abroad.