Thank you for the question.
Actually in just the last couple of weeks, I sent some emails to my colleague, who is the government historian on the commemoration advisory group, on this issue. I'm not sure if he's testified before the committee or not; he is Dr. Steve Harris, the senior historian for the directorate of history and heritage at CAF. We're starting to send feelers out to Library and Archives Canada to see about declassification of unit records. We're probably only going to be able to go up to the 1950s and 1960s, or maybe the early 1970s. The reason we're doing this speaks to the issue we've all been speaking about, which is how to engage young people.
I've been taking groups of students and soldiers on staff rides and study tours for 25 years. Every time we take people overseas to France, Flanders, Italy and Germany, they have those personal experiences. The way we accelerate them is to make it personal, to have them pick a personnel file and be able to engage with archival information about a family member, someone from their town or from their provincial or regional regiment.
That same formula is the recipe for how we do this in the future to build connections that leverage student interest. Don't force them to learn something. Let them pick what they want to learn by harnessing their connection to Canada's military past, because they all have one.