Mr. Chairman, I'm going to make a suggestion which I hope we may be able to agree to. It won't have escaped our notice, on both sides of the table, that there appears to be an infatuation with, an enthusiasm for, a museums policy and a desire to do better for our museums, large and small.
I ask Mr. Kotto whether it would be acceptable for one or two or three priorities for this summer to be that our researchers do an in-depth job that would lead us to adopt a report on a museums policy very early in the fall. It would be a document that could thus become a substantive report that would state everything that has been done, what has been agreed upon and what has been concluded.
I'm speaking to you as a member of the former government at a time when there appeared to be a consensus between the Canadian Museums Association, the Department of Canadian Heritage and the various political parties.
If they could put that all together for us early in the fall, would that be enough? Then we could review everything and turn it into a report, which would encourage the government to move forward more quickly.
That's a suggestion, Mr. Chairman.