Thank you very much, and thank you for sharing with me those personal stories. This is one committee where all of us have been touched one way or another by an event in our lives that drives us to be involved in issues of human rights.
With respect to the education, you're right that with knowledge comes responsibility. I would add that with power comes responsibility. I think this committee has a very important role to play in education and the fight for human rights.
We have received incredible support from the government for our chairmanship year, and Canada has invested significantly in Holocaust education, numbers, and research. There was $2.5 million that was given for the Jewish community historical recognition project, and part of the baseline study that Canada did in joining the organization was the national task force headed by B'nai Brith and Professor Alain Goldschlager, who was the chair of the committee. They did important work not just on commemoration but also in imparting knowledge, increasing Canadians' awareness of what took place during that very tragic period of our history.
There are a series of initiatives we're going to be rolling out to commemorate our chairmanship year. That will be forthcoming. That's one of the reasons we have an advisory committee. We've taken this information to the advisory committee to get its input, to make sure it's developed. We've certainly been supported by the department, the government, in our initiatives. It is something that is taken very seriously and with good funding as well.
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