Mr. Abbott mentioned, when the Museums Association was here, that they had a very tight organization, that they had the capacity to contact their members with lightning speed. That indeed is the case. In fact, as a result of their communication to their members, I have received two e-mails--both, incidentally, from railway museums.
I'm not quite sure what's at the root of this, but they feel that the museums policy somehow overlooks their specific needs. I don't know if it's because railway museums are cultural but also tied in with the transportation industry that they are somehow on the margins of museums funding programs.
So I don't know what the issue is, but I would like to suggest that at our first meeting in the fall we invite two railway museums--in particular, one from the east and one from the west, from Delson, Quebec, and from Revelstoke, which I believe is in Mr. Abbott's riding--even just for an hour and a half. There's something there, under the surface, that I don't know enough about, and I'd like to hear from them.