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Government Operations committee It's interesting. We brought in a very famous American historian—Alan Taylor. He has studied that a lot, and he's actually been using the Library and Archives as a place for research. In his view, this is fundamental, because if the invasion had not been repelled there would prob
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee I never said that, sir.
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee I don't think I used that language, sir.
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee I won't pretend to be a historian. What is important is that the renovations are completed. Once the renovations are completed, of course, they have more space for exhibits and things like that. What you're seeing here is an adjustment that was made to the operating expenses of t
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee Once again, it is often more a matter of profile than of recurring spending because we make transfers. For example, in the supplementary estimates, I believe you will see a transfer to the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Council of Canada because a one-time research proje
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee I did not refer to challenges. I basically said this was not a cut. The chair suggested that the fact that there was less money this year was due to a cut. What I said is the remaining money that was attributed by the Government of Canada, the $100 million, was done last year, wh
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee All our museums do. René can provide more details on that. We did a comparative analysis a few years ago on how they compare, let's say, to the Smithsonian and other museums around the world. Of course, the nominal sums are not the same, but in terms of percentage, our museums do
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee Budget 2012 is basically proposing to double the contingent liability insurance for travelling exhibits, and it's in Bill C-38. This would allow the possibility to cover in a self-insurance way, like contingent liability, a lot more big and smaller exhibits throughout various mus
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee Absolutely, Mr. Cannan. I should probably have said, in answer to your earlier question, that the national museums also make a lot of effort to bring travelling exhibits to local museums, which is also a benefit for communities. As you know, I mentioned in my opening remarks tha
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee That does not sound familiar to me, from the way you say it. As you know, I explained in my comments earlier that we have more than $24 million worth of investments in music. Music programs are affected by the deficit reduction action plan. The program related to the "creation"
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee There is nothing in the 2012 main estimates concerning the Pan American Games, but there are votes in the supplementary estimates related to the fact that we are in the process of preparing for the Pan American Games. Sports funding remains the same. The deficit reduction action
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee For archives, yes.
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee You mean internally?
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean
Government Operations committee That's why modernization and transformation is so important. We would like to be able to give easier access online to our clients and be able to process grants and contributions much faster than we are right now. We are still operating what I would call a system from the previous
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Daniel Jean