To look at both of those questions, I'll take the second one first.
We did have a passport program in the seventies and eighties. It was quite successful. This Xplorers program we developed gives you a guidebook to each of our parks and sites and, as a youth, you can explore. The nice part is that at the end of the day when you come in with your Xplorers book and you've done some of the activities out of that book, we give you a commemorative medallion from that park.
People are now collecting those commemorative medallions. In the first year, we had one great photo of a girl about 12 years old, with her 10 or 11 medallions around her neck, who was saying that she couldn't wait to get more. From that perspective, it was highly successful in that type of engagement.
Also highly successful was the Learn to Camp program. In its first year, we did a pilot at the Halifax Citadel. We had 100 families, primarily new Canadians, sign up within half a day. We probably should have run it for more than 100 Canadians, so we said we would do it the next year. We ran it at national historic sites in about 15 locations. Due to their urban nature, national historic sites are often closer to urban centres. We ran it with a lot of the immigration help groups across the country. In Calgary, for example, the Calgary Catholic Immigration help centre brought the 100 families out to do that with us.
We teach people how to be in the outdoors. We did one where people from Hamilton, Toronto, and Oakville--new Canadians and others--came by bus to Fort George for the weekend. One of those families wrote to us. They ended up buying a tent trailer later in the summer and driving to Cape Breton. They say this will now be their family tradition for the next however many years.
So it pays dividends, and people feel they now have a way to see the country.
I'm sure, Mr. Moore, that they stopped by Fundy on the way out just to make sure they caught a couple of places on the way.