Thank you very much.
On Friday, I was visiting the University of Alberta and had some spare time in the afternoon, so I went to the Alberta Aviation Museum. I had to get an airplane fix because I'm a pilot, so I wandered around. There were a couple of volunteers sitting there. One of them asked if they could help, and I said maybe after I've had my fix. I met him after and we chatted for three hours. I just stayed there. It was so interesting.
I know of many museums where volunteers spend all their time. This gentleman was 75 years old, a very successful retired businessman. He said that he spends three days a week at this museum and two days a week at another museum in Edmonton. I said that was great, and he said that he loves meeting with people. He is a self-taught historian on World War I and World War II, so we had some great conversation.
We have so many people like that across Canada. Is there any program, maybe funded by the federal government, maybe that we should be funding, where we recognize outstanding volunteers? I go back to Mr. Kim's comment about having 400 volunteers.
Is there any type of program, or should we be looking at some type of program, to recognize some of these...I call them great Canadians, who spend a lot of their time to pass on the history of their communities to others?