Government Operations committee  As you know, the federal government is contributing $500 million for infrastructure, legacies, government services, the reports we receive and those we are part of. Because of the auditing that is being done, everything is evolving correctly at this stage.

Government Operations committee  The maximum contribution from the Government of Canada is $500 million for the three envelopes I mentioned. It will not be more than that.

Government Operations committee  Those are two different things. Let us start with the Pan American Games. We have a program for hosting major international events like the Olympic Games, the Pan Am and Parapan American Games, or a world athletics championships like we had in Moncton a few years ago. We have a

Government Operations committee  No, they were not imposed on us. Like any request for a major event, an organizing committee gets together. An analysis is done and an opinion is provided to the minister who decides…

Government Operations committee  It happens for any public policy initiative, or something that requires a public policy approach or funding. It is the same process. Opinions are provided to the minister and the minister discusses it in cabinet.

Government Operations committee  No. Sport Canada comes under the Department of Canadian Heritage. Canadian Heritage has various mandates: heritage is one mandate; culture is another and official languages is another. The Minister of Canadian Heritage is also the Minister of Official Languages. Sport Canada is p

Government Operations committee  I am happy to help, sir.

Government Operations committee  We are talking about the Pan American Games in 2015. As the result of a competitive process, CBC/Radio-Canada was chosen by the Pan American Games organizing committee as the host broadcaster.

Government Operations committee  Yes. You can understand that we get several thousand funding requests each year from a number of organizations. In this case, I will be happy to go back to the department to see if we have anything on that.

Government Operations committee  It is fair to say that I have a good knowledge of national museums. Various museums in Canada have applied under our programs. We are talking about thousands and thousands of applications. At this stage, I do not remember this one. That does not mean that we did not get an applic

Government Operations committee  René will give you some details about that.

Government Operations committee  As we've mentioned, this is a notional allocation because the museum is not open yet. When the time comes to open, we will probably have to revisit what is actually required to operate the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Government Operations committee  It's a combination. There's the $21.7 million operating allocation and also an advance on future appropriation as financial flexibility.

Government Operations committee  As I have explained, they have a cashflow problem. They have pledges. They have had very successful fundraising, the most successful fundraising of any national museum—

Government Operations committee  These pledges have been made over time. They will be collecting their pledges. The pledge collection is quite good, actually. But in order to be able to complete the museum, they needed some financial flexibility in order to be able to have the money now. In the future, the pledg