I obviously can't speak for the government. They're in the preliminary stages, I believe, of determining answers to that question.
I commend the committee for putting it on the agenda and inviting us here today. It's one of the reasons that the concept of Canada House in the old U.S. embassy across the street would be an example of where, I think, we can boast as a nation of some pretty remarkable achievements as a relatively young country. While our American friends are very good at boasting, I think sometimes we're a little too reserved and shy. This would be our opportunity to have that wow moment when students go in there and didn't realize that we invented the arm that was on the space shuttle, or that Canadians invented insulin to fight diabetes.
When I met with officials from the Smithsonian Institution, in this case the American history museum, I asked them what the number one exhibit was that people wanted to see at the Smithsonian. They said it was the ruby slippers of Judy Garland from The Wizard of Oz and Archie Bunker's chair. Maybe that says something about our friends in the States, but I think we want to have that opportunity whereby people can go in and see Celine Dion's gold record or the van from Terry Fox's remarkable Marathon of Hope, and have a chance for us as Canadians to see that we haven't realized that we invented everything from velcro and the zipper to the Canadarm, to the success we've had at hockey, to Bombardier's first snow machine in the world. It would give us an opportunity not only to celebrate those great Canadian artists and inventors and scientists and physicians, but also to look at our country in perhaps a different way than we have before, and to boast a little more about what we've accomplished as a country.