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Canadian Heritage committee I’ll just quickly add to that—
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee No. We do not perceive any sort of detrimental impact on the funds we set aside for hosting international exhibitions. Each international exhibition has a wide variety of cost factors attached to it. Some are based on the complexity of the artifacts for travel. Some are even bas
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee Thank you for the question, Madame Turmel. By rotating, do you mean the international exhibitions?
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee As I mentioned in my remarks earlier, we intend to continue to have international exhibitions. Those partnerships are extremely important to us. We're planning several years out now. We have the Greek exhibition coming next year. In two years', time we’ll have a Vikings exhibit
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee Just to make sure I understand the question, it's about our planning forward and what the new exhibition itself might look like?
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee I wonder, Mr. Chair, if I might ask Dr. Morrison to answer that question? Would that be allowable? David, would you like to—
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee I could add briefly to that, if the member wouldn't mind.
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee Part of your earlier question was about when all of this starts and how long these kinds of visions take place. Here, I would note that John English's name was mentioned earlier. When I joined the corporation as corporate secretary in 2001, Dr. English, former Liberal member of
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee Again, thank you for the question. First, we have aboriginal historians actively involved in the project now. As I mentioned earlier in my remarks, aboriginal history will be a part of the national narrative in the museum, fully and completely within the new national narrative t
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee We have no misconceptions about that. We know that the majority of museums in this country are not going to be able to contribute a great deal of financial capacity to this project. We're aware of that. We are right now mounting a fundraising campaign to try to raise some money t
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee The $25 million is going right to the renovations and the redevelopment of the two halls that we spoke about. We've also committed to raising an extra $5 million.
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee We are going to reallocate some of our resources to help do that, and we think that this network will lend itself very well to sponsorship. So we're looking at a variety of ways in which to—
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee We're looking at sponsorship to allow the network to function—private sponsorship. That's right.
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee We're hoping that if we raise some funds, we'll be able to assist the smaller museums as they participate in this network.
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill
Canadian Heritage committee The $25 million is slated for the renovation and the redevelopment of those two halls.
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark O'Neill