One of the areas that came up when we were looking at regional museum policy in the north and at how to build a federal role is the fact that, again, by itself each collection doesn't constitute a nationally significant story, but in a regional area--for example, mine with its history of mining and the gold and silver rushes, and the multicultural development of these regions from Val d'Or to Sudbury--is a nationally significant story, and yet each piece of the puzzle will not provide for a federal understanding of that.
Is there a role the federal government could play in grouping together regional stories, whether they're in Saskatchewan or northern Ontario, to develop a nationally significant story, which would be housed not in one collection but over a series of five or six or perhaps ten various museums in a region ?