Honourable senators, my question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate. I’d like to return to the visit we had from the Minister of Canadian Heritage. I was pleased when he said he would get back to me on the work that has been done on the Cultural Property Export and Import Act with regard to processes for export of works of art, especially after the situation with the Chagall painting from the National Gallery. I await that, and I trust we’ll get that answer fairly soon, along with the timeline, as I asked him for the review of that piece of legislation.

I’m also very concerned about the Copyright Act. I don’t believe I got an answer as to the timing as to when the arts community can expect revisions to the Copyright Act, nor did we get an answer to my question on whether that would include artists’ resale rights, which is inhibiting our artists overseas with their international work.

I ask, senator, if you can get me the answers on the timelines regarding those important pieces of legislation.