Thank you.
The more I study Canadian history, the more I feel that if we had a better understanding of it, a lot of our problems and issues of unity and the conflicts amongst the various founding peoples and the new immigrants who are coming in would be resolved, because we would have a deeper understanding of how we got to this point and recognize those achievements.
Now I'm going to go a little bit broader and go beyond history to talk about heritage itself. I actually put heritage as my number one pick for which committee I would like to be on. A lot of people wonder why. We talk about how important the economy is. It is our government's number one priority, and I think it should be, but the fact that Canada is leading the world right now economically is not really what defines Canada. It's our heritage that defines Canada.
We're talking about millions and millions of dollars. What does heritage have to do...? If economy is our priority, why are we spending money on heritage in general and not just on the history part of it?