It's one thing to have a museums policy and another thing to fund it. We don't know if it will be funded or how much will be funded.
I just want to make sure that we're not too optimistic here, because to have that in place by the end of the year may be problematic. It would take at least the next budget to find $75 million extra per annum. I just want to make sure we're not raising expectations that this is all going to be done by the end of the year.
I am very sympathetic towards you, given that my own community's museum actually was on the verge of being dissolved. In fact, they had already talked about having a public auction to auction off all of the memorabilia and artifacts--our community's heritage. At that moment the city stepped in and was able to provide some additional funding, but it's still a financially tenuous situation for that museum, as I'm sure it is for many others across the country.
If there's one policy that we could change at the federal level that wouldn't involve the funding aspect, could you identify that? Or perhaps there isn't any one.