Good morning.
I'm in agreement with Madame Kenny. I work with English-speaking communities and research, but my own background is as a historian. I've had the wonderful fortune of working on several community-based history projects with different ethnocultural groups making up the English-speaking communities of Quebec. I've worked on a history of the Irish community, the Jewish community, and the different communities in Quebec City.
In answer to your question, the English-speaking communities are already very interested in the question of history, and have developed a really good infrastructure of local history groups, heritage organizations, and arts and culture organizations over the years. We're very well positioned, I would say, to work in cooperation with the committee or with Canadian Heritage to support the bigger picture throughout the province of Quebec. We definitely have the track record and the structures.
Also, on the research side, interestingly, a growing number of historians are not only English speakers, but French speakers studying English-speaking Quebec, who I think would have a lot to offer as well.
I believe we have knowledge to contribute, but we also have contacts on the ground across the province to support the bigger picture at the local level and to get information at the local level up to the big picture.