Thank you, Chair.
I appreciate all of you being here. With the little bit of experience I've had going overseas and visiting those sites on a trip as a member of Parliament, believe me, it's something I wish every Canadian could do.
All of my grandkids have been to the museum in Ottawa. We have a lot to be very proud of.
I want to ask some questions of Steve McLellan, who is the chair of the group back home in Saskatchewan working on the museum status for our RCMP Heritage Centre.
As you know, Steve, in his mandate letter from the Prime Minister, the minister has been tasked with making sure that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Heritage Centre is a national museum. I know that's our priority and certainly a very valid one. I'm very excited to see this happen.
However, I also want to bring up the fact that this is a 10-year plan that we're looking at to improve commemoration across Canada. The vision is to have Canadians understand and appreciate those in uniform, their contributions and sacrifices, and to have all veterans and family members feel recognized.
They indicate here that it would be a broader approach to expand the focus of VAC's commemorative programming without removing the traditional focus on World War II and Korean War veterans. VAC wants to increase awareness of other international operations in which the Canadian Armed Forces and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have served and participated.
Of course, we have to recognize, and sometimes we even forget here within this [Technical difficulty—Editor] we have a responsibility to the RCMP as well. We travelled across Canada in the last government, right from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, up to Yellowknife and to Beauval, in northern Saskatchewan, where we met with Métis and indigenous individuals. We visited with serving and veteran RCMP members, who take on incredible challenges.
I wonder what your perspective would be if, as part of that museum, you could see commemoration of our veterans. Do you have an idea of what you think that could or should look like?