In fact, reference to research has been removed from the mandate. That's why it doesn't matter what qualifications Dr. Morrison has, or others have. As Dr. Rabinovitch had indicated, when the museum has to account for how it's spending money and has to make tough decisions in this difficult financial environment, you can't point any longer to a provision in its mandate that specifies research as one of its priorities. So that's part of our concern.
I remain perplexed. We're all in favour of the advancement of Canadian history, and we can fix the problem. This committee can make proposals that easily fix the problem. Dr. Rabinovitch gave you two of them. They're not diminishing anything. They're preserving the brand. They're preserving the focus on research and knowledge and critical understanding. They're preserving the diversity, and they allow all of the kinds of sharing that our museum colleagues are so keen about. The current Museum of Civilization has more than 200 MOUs with other museums across the country. There's nothing in the current act that prevents this. So I'm just perplexed. I don't know why we're diminishing what we currently have when we have the opportunity to preserve it, expand it, and support it.