Thank you very much for the great support. That's another election that I have been in in the last three years. Today is the ninth, and on Friday it will be my third anniversary in the House. I was elected in a byelection in 2003, and subsequently elected twice since, so I have had quite a few elections in the last while. I thank everyone for the great support that you have given me to chair this great committee.
I feel that we have had a very good working relationship in this committee over the three years. I have learned a lot of things. The Honourable Mauril Bélanger taught me some very valuable steps in committee work in my very first.... I think I had been here for about two or three months, and I think neither one of us at that particular time liked the way the committee was going. Over the last number of years the consensus and the working relationship around this table have been phenomenal, and I think various other committees have been told how well we work in this standing committee.
I just want to leave a couple of things with the members of the committee. We will shortly adjourn for today, but I want people to come back to the next meeting on Thursday at 3:30.
Over the next couple of days I would like people to think of what we want to deliberate on, at least from now until the summer break. One thing that has been near and dear to my heart, and I'm going to throw it out, has been small museums and archives. It's something that I know I brought up at one particular meeting that was going on, and it didn't even concern small museums and archives, but I did mention them. Afterwards there was a gentleman who came up to me. He was the president of the small museums and archives, and he said, “You are the first person who has mentioned us in five years.” So I think that would be something.
I know Mauril lives in this region, but I don't know how many of us around this table realize the facilities that are kind of under our umbrella: the Museum of Civilization, the War Museum, the National Art Gallery, and various things. I'm just thinking that in the short time we have from now until summer, we might think of whether there could be a day or two when we might tour and meet some of the people who operate these. Again, we can relate that to small museums and archives. That's just a little pet thing of mine, but I am only the chair, and we're ready to look at various other things.
Yes, Jim?