Canadian Heritage committee  I'll ask my colleague Ms. Lepine to answer that.

Canadian Heritage committee  The answer to that is not yet. We're currently looking at our retail distribution strategy. We've earmarked a few cities where we intend to make some inroads. It's a balance also of making sure that the investment we put in place makes sense for us as a crown corporation with a f

Canadian Heritage committee  That question has a few things I would suggest as answers. We do get a lot of requests from the public. We do get a lot of requests from Canadians with regard to topics, and we take them very seriously. We usually tend to add them to our annual research to ensure that we have an

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, we are. We have a series on great explorers that's just starting now.

Canadian Heritage committee  Actually, I think we should probably offer to our members the opportunity to get our Mint catalogue so that you would have a good appreciation of all of our products. We have 150 products in our plan for next year, so we do a wide variety about themes. We do it educationally, t

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, it's a bit early to commit to what we should be doing, but our thoughts are, again, to try to appeal to a wide range about national pride, about regional communities, and to try to create that connection with Canadians, but also, that series is iconic for us. So to some ext

Canadian Heritage committee  We are constantly working to improve that deadline. The process can be a long one; it can be as long as 24 months, and it is preferable that suggestions be submitted as early as possible. We are quite a flexible organization and we can make adjustments, given our commercial natur

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll start. We haven't done much, really, to be quite honest. I think you've raised an opportunity for us to reflect on how extensively we address different communities. We try to do so. We've done a lot, I think, more recently, with the first nations. We've been proactive there,

Canadian Heritage committee  Consultations are held in connection with the research we conduct. We do in fact survey Canadian public opinion on a regular basis. Our surveys reach more than 1,000 Canadians. We do this periodically. They are now done online. It is a way of surveying the population on the relev

Canadian Heritage committee  We hold ongoing consultations with the representatives of Heritage Canada, for instance. We prepare a list of the most important commemorative events and we include them in our research. We work in cooperation with them. We expect that our partners will cooperate with us. It is m

Canadian Heritage committee  We have. It's a question of balance, because we want to be careful about that. What we have most recently commemorated with what I call a collector coin is probably the Highway of Heroes. We did that in Trenton, and actually the work we put into rendering the design was somethin

Canadian Heritage committee  Our view on that is to have a balance and to do it well. The program that was done in 1992 is a good reflection of what can be done. There were 10 or 12 coins to depict all of the provinces and territories. I really believe--and I know that my colleagues at the Mint feel the sam

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll let my colleague, our chief operating officer, Bev Lepine, answer that question.

Canadian Heritage committee  We use a pretty extensive process through market research. That's the first cornerstone of the process, and obviously dialogue with many of our federal partners, namely, Canadian Heritage. We do annual research on commemorative themes. We actually have now complemented that by go

Canadian Heritage committee  Pretty much so.