Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If you are working from the act, you are going to go to page four, line 33.
I'm prepared to vote for this bill, but what my amendment is attempting to do, similar to the one I raised initially in my earlier comments, is to enhance the public acceptance of the bill with this particular change.
We do note the Canadian Museums Act does have a section that assures curatorial independence, but for greater certainty and because there's so much public concern that there's a political agenda driving the change of the name from Museum of Civilization to Museum of History, I'm proposing the following:
9.1 For greater certainty, no decision taken by the Governor in Council, the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages or the Department of Canadian Heritage may infringe upon the curatorial independence of the Canadian Museum of History.
It's intended to strengthen the act overall, and strengthen public confidence that there's no secret political agenda behind the current change. I would urge the Conservatives who are here today to pass this in aid of assuring concerned people that there is no such agenda.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.