Evidence of meeting #22 for Veterans Affairs in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was museum.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Caroline Dromaguet  Director General, Canadian War Museum
David Loveridge  Director, Canada and Americas Area, Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Don Cooper  President, Juno Beach Centre Association
Steve McLellan  Board Chair, RCMP Heritage Centre
Caitlin Bailey  Executive Director, The Vimy Foundation

5:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bryan May

Yes, it looks like you have two minutes, and it looks like Mr. McLellan has a contribution.

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Board Chair, RCMP Heritage Centre

Steve McLellan

Yes, for just a brief second. I have a hard stop as I have to leave for our heritage centre board meeting, and I wanted to say thanks to everyone. Congratulations on this conversation and good luck in your efforts.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bryan May

Thank you, sir.

Will, you have about a minute.

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Liberal

William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC

Perhaps I could give Mr. Cooper the opportunity to speak to the Juno Beach reaction to the budget.

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President, Juno Beach Centre Association

Don Cooper

We're happy with the budget so far. I think we basically have been satisfied with the level of support we've received. We would also always like a little more to help us with our main projects. We don't run out of aspirations and visions for things to do.

We've maintained the same level of support for about 15 years. We think it's being eroded by inflation and so forth, and we think it merits a review, but other than that, I don't have any dissatisfaction to express.

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Liberal

William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC

Thank you, Mr. Cooper.

Thank you, Chair.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bryan May

Thank you.

Seeing as we only have a few minutes before our stop at six, I don't think we have time to get through another round.

I want to take a moment and thank all the witnesses for being here today. This has been a very good session, and I want to thank you for your contribution to this study.

Members, our next scheduled meeting is on Monday, May 3, when we'll resume this study. It will be attended by department officials as well as the Royal Canadian Legion.

Again, thank you very much, all of you, for your help today, and a big thank you to all the tech staff, the folks that can make us be heard, both in this meeting and across Canada, in both official languages. Thank you very much, everybody.

I adjourn today's meeting.