Thank you.
Good morning, Mr. Schellenberger. I have two questions for you.
In your remarks, you said that individuals who had received medals were not necessarily given recognition and that their medals ended up in the back room of a museum. But if those individuals gave those medals to a museum, if they were put on display, if the public could see them and understand what these individuals had done to deserve them and see photos of the people in question, do you not think that would be a good incentive? If the medals are kept in some storage area, no one will know who the individuals are who had earned them. Perhaps the fact that they could be a part of the museum, where the medals they had earned in combat, as well as their name and photo, were on display, would encourage them to sell or give their medals to a museum.
Furthermore, I want to know how you plan to make people aware of this bill and the fact that these medals should be kept in museums. Of course, you can go through the Royal Canadian Legion to get the word out to people that, beginning today, there is a bill and they must sell or transfer their medals to the War Museum or other appropriate organization, but you already know that many veterans are not part of the legion, nor do they want to be. Will anything be done? Placing an ad in the newspaper will not be enough. You really have to get the word out there to make people aware of the bill. Has anyone thought about how to reach the people in question, in order to obtain their medals?