Madam Chair, it's an interesting discussion, and there are lots of good ideas out there. The bankruptcy one is one which I would agree we should look at, because that involves some things that are really interesting to municipalities. They get the brunt of that, so I think that's a good one to follow up and see where that is.
You talked about retrofitting or new recreation facilities. I think one of the challenges that municipalities have is retrofitting, and that's something we can look at and study. Okay, what does retrofitting...? We all have recreation facilities, and we are all challenged to build the new ones, and we seem to, but we always have the old ones. If we can look at retrofitting rec facilities, I think that would be a good one to look at.
We can look at historic sites, absolutely, but let's not save the architecture from the 1960s and 1970s. Maybe we can say that is what we shouldn't build because.... Anyway, 1960s and 1970s architecture is brutal. Historic sites and buildings is a great topic.
Talking about protection of animals and wildlife, my fishing buddies always like to go with me in the national parks because they can all run faster than I can from the bears. I've had many close encounters with grizzly bears and survived because I grew up understanding what the environment is. Most people don't get into the parks and don't understand it. We can live with a lot of the species if we experience and learn how to deal with them. Grizzly bears I've experienced close up many times, but I've known how to deal with it. Most people don't because they don't experience it. If we segregate everything out as an isolated piece of our world that you look at on a video, that's not experiencing our national parks. We need to find ways that people can experience and understand what's in our environment more than they do now. That's where I'd like to be going.
