Mr. Malo, in terms of having the debate at the Treasury Board, I'm sure that has to come. From your point of view, I'm sure the committee, if it chooses to do so, will recommend to Treasury Board that additional funding is needed.
There are specific steps that you could push the Treasury Board towards, for instance, to help with this funding and these decisions. Some of them were included in the recommendations in my report.
For instance, curators can currently identify artifacts and cover the rationale for tax receipts up to $1,000. This hasn't been adjusted in a significant number of years, and inflation alone might take that value to $10,000. Institutions need to be relieved of the responsibility of having to get third-party arm's-length appraisals for a significant number of artifacts that are donated.
That's one concrete way you could work with the Treasury Board to make a change to allow this to happen and to make things easier.
Similarly, I mentioned that it would be helpful to have the preparation and movement of the artifacts to the railway museums recognized within that tax receipt. I think this would be very helpful for all of the institutions. I think it could be expanded to other museums as well.
For instance, I think proof of fair market value for donated artifacts could be based on evidence that is even supplied by the railway companies. In our case, we're getting a donation of a particular locomotive, and its class happens to be an SD40. The railways sold hundreds of these in the recent past. Why wouldn't proof of value of sale be sufficient to justify that, rather than the institutions having to bring in a person to do an arm's-length appraisal?
There are ways to help work with the Treasury Board. Some recommendations for funding have already gone to Treasury Board, through the pan-Canadian funding practice in communities, from the Canadian Council on Social Development. Many recommendations in this report would correspond with the kinds of things that we're saying would make things better.
Are there any others?