I'm pleased you asked that question because I was here at the hearings five years ago when this issue came up. This committee at that point was holding a hearing on the Auditor General's report that had come out about the deterioration of Canadian heritage. The committee had met to look into this.
One of the recommendations was that the railway history should be preserved, and that Exporail should become the national railway museum. That went to Parliament, and Parliament adopted it.
Following that, we met with Bev Oda, who was the Minister of Canadian Heritage at that point. She recommended that we meet with the Museum of Science and Technology to work out a proposal that it could give to the minister, which we did.
We met with the science and technology museum. We looked at how we could integrate the railway collections, and we came up with what we thought was a very good a proposal.
Then that proposal was taken by the science and technology museum to the minister, but by that time the minister had changed and was now Minister Moore. After he looked at it, he came back and said that unfortunately, they didn't have the funds to carry it out. That's where it ended. That was five years ago.