I wanted to refer to Culture Days. Culture Days grew out of an idea. A number of arts organizations were involved, and we thought it was an important thing to do—to engage Canadians in the whole notion of how important culture is in our lives. We've had an extraordinary response—people have organized themselves into groups of volunteers in 800 communities across the country.
We don't have people in all those communities, but the people who are there have embraced the notion. I think the Canada 150 notion would be something that people would want to embrace. Putting the call out and asking what they'd like to do and how they'd like to be organized triggers a tremendous response. Look at the response in Vancouver to volunteering for the Olympics. That's all in one community. You take this notion and tell them across Canada that we want them to think of things they can do together to create events and to support events that are already happening. This also goes back to the previous question: how do we make sure that the work gets out there? I think we can call on Canadians to self-organize and volunteer to create their own activities and bring their own events to light.
We've been absolutely astonished. Culture Days is in its second year. We had support from the Department of Canadian Heritage and from Sun Life, but it's really grassroots. Our main support has been concentrated on marketing the idea. This idea engaged people to create well over 5,000 events over the course of one weekend. Part of the challenge was that we concentrated the call. We asked that people organize themselves to do something once during the year, over three days. We had a tremendous response. I think there's a kernel there that could be developed for Canada 150.