You're absolutely right. Film is a powerful medium with which to tell stories. That vignette you saw is just one of five that I produced for Citizenship and Immigration Canada. If you go on their website, you will see five different stories, very similar to the Historica. I sat on the board of directors for Historica for a number of years.
When you log on to the website and you see the five different stories, No. 2 Construction Battalion is one of them. William Hall is another one. I selected those because I felt that the underground railroad story was one a lot of Canadians knew about in terms of slaves escaping from the United States, but what happened to those African Canadians when they arrived here? They didn't just sit idle. They had dreams; they became heroes. I wanted to take that a step further. Using film to tell these stories is a wonderful idea. My company has been involved in that for many years, in producing documentaries and in producing promotional videos for the government and provincial agencies. But again, it's the same obstacle you run up against in my industry as you do in the educational system. There is a resistance to want to tell these stories. There's a resistance in terms of obtaining funding and moneys to tell these stories. That's the kind of resistance our community has been up against for decades, for hundreds of years.