I will be doing that as well. The reason I raise that question, Mr. Chair, is simply because the minister apparently told people on the weekend that questions have been raised about a program. She was trying to create hysteria about an opposition attack on a particular program. We have checked Hansard . Nobody has asked any question about this program. Therefore, I wonder why the minister would want to be misleading, perhaps inadvertently, members of the cultural community into this kind of hysteria.
I want to ask the minister about the veracity of a media report on October 7 of this year entitled “Poor attendance may cost [Minister of Canadian Heritage] seat on key committee”. It said:
Heritage Minister... risked being dumped from a key Cabinet committee in charge of implementing the Liberal government's agenda because of poor attendance, federal officials say. [The Minister of Canadian Heritage] confirmed yesterday she missed three weeks of meetings of the cabinet operations committee in September...Senior--