We've embarked upon.... For example, we're also pushing with Canada right now to get this resolved. There are still many veterans out there without headstones. That was one of the promises that were made.
Getting support from governments for monuments is a challenging thing because of the government funding situation and bureaucracy, more than anything, more than the minister. I know that the previous minister who was there for the Liberal government indicated that he would like to work with me on the headstone issue and on monuments. When I asked my staff to get on track with that, because of the bureaucracy, I could already see what was going to happen. The red tape was there.
These people are dying on us. I wanted to show them honour before they left us, so we've built two beautiful monuments already in Manitoba. We have a very strong economic engine in Manitoba. We make some very good revenue in our businesses, so we funded it ourselves. I was later approached by the government, which said, “Look, we want to get involved.” I said, “Look, you become involved when you show me you are actually able to become involved and I don't have to wait a year or two and go through bureaucracy to get in a concurrence. We have a partnership."
We'll still continue to build monuments on our own. If the government wants to come in, then we'll welcome them in, but I'm not going to take a year of work trying to get $10,000. It costs me more than $10,000 to try to get that $10,000.