Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I won't have enough for five minutes, so I'll say which topics that I think as a group we may want to explore beyond today, perhaps into the fall. One is why the government needs that much more time. We had the minister here a couple of weeks ago telling us she couldn't see a museum policy coming forward in the next year, when indeed the policy itself...all the stakeholders, including the government, seemed to be pretty well in agreement, and it was a matter, then, of bringing it forward for funding. My suspicion is that if it had come forward for funding, there would have been a positive answer--the amount we'll never know. Whether it's $75 million or more or less...you can stay awake at night dreaming about this.
For 2,500 museums...Mr. McAvity, it would take about seven years to visit them, if you visited one a day. It's a question Mr. Warkentin alluded to: Are there too many? I understand it's a harsh question to ask, but the question I want to drive at is, is there an accreditation mechanism of sorts for museums? If not, should there be one?