Mr. Chair, I would just like to correct the record here.
Of course, we're extremely happy to be celebrating the 150th anniversary of Confederation. One of the key elements we'll be inaugurating on July 1 is a major renovation at the Canadian Museum of History, the History Hall, which will be presenting the history of Canada. That will be one of the key legacies of our government.
We've also been involved in funding many of the history-based projects, one of which was mentioned by my colleague and has been presented by the Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF. I just want to make sure my colleague understands that this was funded by Canadian Heritage.
I would like to provide you with other examples. One is Equal Voice's Daughters of the Vote project celebrating the 100th anniversary of women being able to vote. Of course, we were all there and saw 338 beautiful young women sitting in our seats. That was a great moment in our Parliament.
To give you some other examples, there is the monument that will celebrate the Stanley Cup's 100th anniversary, and the Vimy Foundation's project, the First World War in colour, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Vimy and Passchendaele battles.
On Prince Edward Island, which my parliamentary secretary is very fond of, there is the commemoration of the Charlottetown Conference of 1864. We gave $5 million to the project Celebrate the Creation of Our Nation, 2014-2017.
I know that my colleague Mr. Van Loan is very interested in museums, especially museums that present history projects, which I'm very fond of. I would like to give him examples of projects that we have funded to support the importance of history.
The Waterloo Region Museum has received nearly $200,000 for its exhibition presenting the impacts of women on Canadian society from Confederation up to now. There's an exhibition at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery called “A Story of Canadian Art” to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation, and at the Musée maritime du Québec, an exhibition called “Sur les traces de Franklin”, which talks about the great quest of Franklin in the context of his travels across the Canadian Arctic.
There is another project that my colleague Mr. O'Regan would really like, because it's at Memorial University in Newfoundland, at the Grenfell Campus Art Gallery. It's called “Architecture and National Identity: The Centennial Projects 50 Years On”.
I could go on. I would also like to say that for my part, coming from Montreal, I was there for the launch of the 375th anniversary of the city, which was on May 17. I really hope that in the context of the 150th anniversary, we take this opportunity to reflect on our past, but also envision a future full of possibilities.