Canadian Heritage committee  Is that 10 minutes each or 10 minutes for the three of us?

Canadian Heritage committee  My son Dan wears the Order of Canada insignia, you'll notice. He also has a doctorate from Carleton University. When you have Danny in a room, you've got a ghostbuster, a blues brother, and a conehead.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have just a few general remarks here that are matters of principle rather than detail, but I think they will probably be useful to you. I hope so. First of all, there was no official history written about 1967, apart from The Anniversary Compulsion. I have copies of the book

Canadian Heritage committee  You've opened up the whole field by opening the gate, and I can't swing back and forth on the gate; I have to get into the field, and it's too big a field. I don't know that I can answer your question that satisfactorily. I had something, however, that I didn't say in my openin

Canadian Heritage committee  It's in the field of technology. It's communications. It's the whole question about what we are calling social media. Anybody can talk to anybody else in the world on the Internet and online. It's a simply stupendous advance in communications and relationships of individuals with

Canadian Heritage committee  Which anniversary?

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I don't recall. I wasn't involved.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's worth responding to you, as members of Parliament, that in 1967 it started in the Prime Minister's Office—in Mr. Pearson's office. He had a private secretary named Jack Hodgson. Jack Hodgson was a distinguished naval officer in the war, and he was an executive in the Central

Canadian Heritage committee  The Centennial Commission? Of course, it was established by statutes to start with, and the Centennial Act was quite clear about what its purpose was. The members of the commission were well chosen from across the country to represent a broad spectrum of Canada. That didn't work

Canadian Heritage committee  It was a cost-sharing program with the three levels of government. The federal government, by statute, said they'd put up a dollar if the province put up a dollar, and then the municipalities could put up one dollar or more. The aggregate funds would be used to build centennial p

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry, is there a question there?

Canadian Heritage committee  Oh, yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Oh, yes, there were. One of the problems with capital projects of that nature is that there's no money made for maintenance in perpetuity, and that becomes a burden.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have a chapter in there on symbols and how the centennial symbol was chosen, and the centennial song, “Ca-na-da, we love thee”. That's a kind of an anthem, which is still viable and still owned by the Government of Canada. I believe the patent on it has not expired. It's extr