The need for a museum is well documented. But no matter what the model for a centre or museum of African Canadian history is, at the end of the day it would be a place where people can come, learning can take place, and a foundation of memory can be laid. Between now and 2017, we should be creating more materials. Those films, those vignettes, can all be part of what would be in the museum, as well as exhibits, as well as the artifacts that raised awareness might help to create. All of this is to say that the potential is there for finding a way to better reflect who we are as Canadians.
On November 24th, 2011. See this statement in context.