I think the point is correct. When you look at the high school level in Canada, you see that only four provinces in Canada require a mandatory course in Canadian history. In every other province and territory you have a course in social studies, which would be your mandatory subject, and really, let's face it, that's a mishmash of a bit of history, a bit of geography, a bit of civics, a bit of economics, and a bit of philosophy, all of which are very good things, but the historical narrative gets lost.
Our work is really to complement and to provide learning tools, learning resources, and learning programs that allow teachers to make the teaching of Canadian history interesting and relevant and really make it come out of the textbook. That would be one challenge.
As for what this committee can do about the teaching of history across the country, that really is a provincial jurisdiction, so it's a constant struggle. That's where our advocacy role comes in and plays a large role.
The other thing I would say is that we live beside a country that is very good at telling its own story and talking about its history and its past. In Canada, we've generally been too timid and too shy to do so. That's where our media program and our production of resources come in, for everything from heritage minutes to the Canadian Encyclopedia and the kind of survey research we do. It really comes in and fills a void, in a sense, or what is too close to a void, in regard to Canadians telling their own stories.