Welcome to our guests. Thank you for being here.
Mr. Chair, comments by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Anderson are in full agreement with those made by people from the Musée ferroviaire de Delson/Saint-Constant.
The need to get funds to be able to conserve these large artifacts has been confirmed in their comments.
I thank our guests today for confirming these main elements of our analysis of the policy on museums.
They dealt earlier more specifically on their funding needs. But I think if we can agree on the vision we want to present to museums, or our vision of a policy on museums, the discussion should not continue here, but with the finance minister or the finance standing committee. They are the ones who will have to provide the funds to implement this vision or policy on museums. Obviously, this committee should provide this policy, but the Canadian heritage minister will have to promote it.
I would like our witnesses to comment, if they care to. I could even let Mr. Heard take the floor, since he did not have enough time to speak about all he wanted to deal with today.