I would just like to reinforce that. When you're looking at the story equipment is telling, when you're looking at the reasons for preserving it, the caboose preserved in Sicamous or the steam locomotive preserved in the park in Halifax may or may not be part of the national story, and that has to be determined. Looking at the reasons for the preservation, the relationship to its surroundings, and the technological innovations involved in that piece help tell a story, and when this analysis is done you will find a significant number of the individual artifacts tell a local or a regional story.
When you look at larger collections, you will find elements within those. In some cases, a significant percentage of the collections tell a national story or a very large regional interprovincial story, and the federal government has a role to play in supporting these.
I have no objection to cabooses in parks or snowplows in parks because they help relate to the local history, and the local community should be willing to support and maintain this equipment.