I think it did in many cases, just not on this file. My message to you is that had I been in a position to make this happen, I would have been delighted to. I wasn't in a position to do it. That's one of the reasons I've returned to it now. The point is that it's still alive. The infrastructure is still there. Everything has been built to allow it to happen. To make the difference takes only a fairly small push over the finish line with this bill, and I would hope that other stuff will follow afterwards, because there are other places in which the federal role in encouraging heritage has an abundant potential.
I view this bill as a good beginning. Right now we're limited to using the national register of historic sites. In the drafting I created an element in this bill to allow the minister the ability to extend that usage by regulation to any properties that are designated as heritage properties in a province or territory under their laws, so that, should there be a desire to grow the program, future governments would have the ability to grow the program that way.