Fundamentally, we as Canadians don't know our history. We don't know enough about Sir John A. We have polled repeatedly on this over the last 10 years, and we've not shown any significant improvement. People don't know that Sir John A. was the leading Father of Confederation. Some of them don't even know what he looks like, even though he's on the dollar bill that a lot of people see in large numbers every day. They can't identify who D'Arcy McGee was. They don't know Canada's contribution in World War II, which is something that came up earlier. On virtually every mark they fail, and that's probably because they don't learn.
In terms of our history and our heritage, the system is failing us, so something has to change within. When you talk about local museums, I go back to Tip O'Neill's observation that all politics is local. So is history to a large degree. It's about communities, whether we define them geographically, through ethnicity, or through culture. It happens through reaching out and touching each other. We have to get better. It has to change fundamentally. To get somewhere, you have to leave somewhere behind.