We're quite happy to look at this. I am going to see if we can come up with some things from our collection. I know the House has a fair bit of material in storage that is not on display, and I know this from decorating my office.
I would be more than happy to come up with some suggestions for things that might be useful for the purpose you have in mind for this room. I think I'm safe in saying that I can't see the other committees objecting to having some art hanging on the walls. It would make it a room that more suits your purposes, which I'm keen to do.
It's been suggested that you apply names to it. If names start sticking for some reason, fine. But who knows how that would play out?
This happened, in my view, with the Railway Room, and that's all I've been able to find out in reviewing the history of it. Many of the other rooms were named specifically. There is the Commonwealth Room, for example. The Reading Room was a reading room, of course, and it was that when I first came here. The New Zealand Room in the restaurant was given that name because the Parliament in New Zealand donated the wood panelling, which was originally intended for the Prime Minister's Office but, because there wasn't enough, wound up in the New Zealand Room.
I guess we're on the record, and I can't tell that other story.
The Confederation Room, Room 200, was changed around 1964. The Speaker pushed for a change and got agreement to carry through and to give it a name. It was previously just Room 200. It was fixed up in the early 1960s, and when it was finished, the room was renamed. You notice it's not named as a committee room, but it is occasionally used as one.