Canadian Heritage committee  Through the chair, then, in your estimation, what does removing “Canadians” do? Does it actually change the way the program functions right now?

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. Thank you, Chair.

Canadian Heritage committee  Is it admissible?

Canadian Heritage committee  Through you, Chair, to the officials, the amendment would delete “for Canadians”: Whereas it is of utmost importance for Canadians to be able to bring before the courts test cases of national significance What is the significance of taking out “for Canadians”? What does it do?

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Certainly, charter rights apply to those who are citizens and non-citizens alike. The Court Challenges Program is money put aside by Canadian taxpayers, essentially used to challenge the Government of Canada and the rulings made there. Potentially, then, what this would do is say that non-citizens have the right to access those Canadian tax funds put aside for the Court Challenges Program to challenge the Canadian government with regard to decisions it has made.

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. I wouldn't mind understanding from the officials the significance of this change.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry. We're just voting on the subamendment. Is that correct?

Canadian Heritage committee  That's what he just said.

Canadian Heritage committee  No.

Canadian Heritage committee  Before that, we did CPC-6.

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. Thank you, Chair. I appreciate the floor. Just before I get to that, I wish to give notice of a motion that I'll be tabling here at committee. It shouldn't come as a surprise. On Sunday, we had a historic event take place, and that was game six between the Edmonton Oilers and the Dallas Stars.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's perfect. Awesome. Where we left off last day, I understand, was with a subamendment to amendment G-2 having been moved to replace lines 26 to 28 in clause 3. I believe I already read it into the record, but, again, we would insert “and financial performance of the program, as well as a list of all the cases that received funding and the amount provided for each case”.

Canadian Heritage committee  There's been no formal moving of an amendment with regard to the date or the officials. That would need to be formalized in order to know exactly what we're voting on.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Just quickly, I'll offer an amendment. It is that after the words “anti-racism strategy” in the third line, all other words from the motion be struck.

Canadian Heritage committee  Perfect. Thank you so much. I'm just curious about a panel of seven multimedia experts that has been put together with regard to the CBC. Anything I've read says they were appointed by the heritage minister. I'm curious about what criteria were used for their selection.