Good morning, and thank you.
I loved Sir John A. too--same part of the country, right?
On our sesquicentennial, we're thinking of it as the culmination of five great years of big moments in Canadian history. Next year is the bicentennial of 1812. I know that the government has planned a tremendous number of activities around that, and we'll be covering and filming them. We're also planning a two-part documentary series just for 1812. It's a little bit of fun, if anybody wants to hear about it.
We're going to be putting people in red coats and sending them to those places along the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River where pivotal battles happened--where the generals fell, or whatever--even though those places are now Timmy's parking lots. Then we'll be talking to Canadians and asking them, “Do you know that this place where you're standing drinking your double-double is where the whole country changed, where the history of our country changed?” We think that's really great.
There's another thing that I think is really fun. We all know that we won that war handily. Coming from Brockville, I think that was one of my first childhood stories. But the Americans don't know that. We'll be going into classrooms, side by side, where the war of 1812 is being taught in America and in Canada, and we'll switch teachers to see if they can teach it the other way. We think that will be fun too.
But that's just the beginning of five years leading up the sesquicentennial. We have the Queen's jubilee anniversary coming up. We have the 100th anniversary of the Grey Cup, and women getting the vote. We have the 150th anniversary of the Quebec and Charlottetown conferences coming up, so we'll get Sir John A. back in for you there. Then, of course, Vimy and Passchendaele will be coming up during that.
So it's an unbelievably important five-year period in the history of the country leading up to the sesquicentennial.