I think there are a lot of opportunities for museums to work together. This point has come up on both sides of the table. Some of the good examples are actually in Montreal, where virtually all of the museums worked together and established one warehouse, one conservation facility. It's in an old brewery in Old Montreal, and condos were sold on the top. It was a brilliant plan. The federal government contributed and so did the Province of Quebec. That kind of model I think can be built across the country. It's really a matter of the museums being willing to work together.
I think there are many cost-sharing ideas we can do. We brought in a group insurance plan that brought down the cost of insurance by about 50%. We would like to go to the next step, which is to do what the hospitals and universities have done, to set up what is called a reciprocal insurance program, where essentially you insure yourself and you save money.
There are a lot of opportunities to raise the visibility of small museums that are not known. If that comes out of 2017, I think that would be a great opportunity.
Monsieur Nantel, you brought up the question of passes. You may not be aware of a pass that is presently in place, and we're really proud of it. Every new Canadian, when they become a citizen at the signing-in ceremony, is offered a free pass for themselves and their family for one year to all the museums in Canada. We give that out. We had to convince our members to do it. Some of them thought we were going to lose money. This is a community, a constituency that we want to come into the museums. So we open the doors. We have behind-the-scenes visits and make them feel part of the community. So I think we can build upon that kind of thing.
We have looked at a pay-pass. It gets a little complicated. Canada's a really big country, you know. People are really not going to have the opportunity to travel. So it really needs to be done on a regional basis. We've looked at it, but the costs have just been really difficult for us to overcome. Holland, the Netherlands, has a similar pass. You pay 25 euros and get to visit all the museums in the Netherlands, a great idea.