I know you're probably more well versed on this than I am, but my whole thing is that there are medals out there in the field that have value, and those collectors are collecting them. When there's a medal of significance out there that we feel is part of our Canadian heritage and should be here in Canada, and we have to pay exorbitant fees to someone else, it probably was of very little value to the family person who might have moved that medal onto the market. But down the way, we've had to pay, on a couple of Silver Crosses, exorbitant amounts to get them back.
I know from talking to Mr. Thompson on this that he has worked feverishly to bring some of these medals back, to get them back into Canada and off eBay and those types of things. I would hope that through the legislation we have already, the Cultural Property Export and Import Act, there is an incentive there, a tax incentive and various other things, such that these medals would be donated.
Regarding the gentleman who just passed away in the last year or so in Stratford, again, I never realized his position during the Second World War. After he passed away, his family made a personal donation of all his medals to the Stratford Perth Museum.
You're right on when you say that the Museum of Civilization and the War Museum do not have unlimited funds to go out and pay exorbitant prices for these medals. On this whole thing, if we can stop it from happening, my whole intent would be that people would realize the significance and the importance of what those medals really mean and they would donate them to the museums.