Mr. Speaker, the disgrace is in the quality of the remarks I have just heard.
The member referred to a stationary museum. I have never been inside the Reform Party caucus so I cannot comment on that. Perhaps the member is right to that extent. We all know dinosaurs are usually found in museums. To that extent perhaps he is correct.
Concerning the issue, it is a serious one. The member across may not think cultural property is important to anyone. He has a right to think that. I think he is wrong. The heritage of this country is worth preserving. That heritage may involve the community museum we have in Williamstown in the great riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, the Nor'Westers and Loyalist museum where people like Simon Fraser, Alexander Mackenzie and others worked and lived, then eventually went on to explore the great Canadian west. All of these things are important. Perhaps the member across does not think so. Perhaps he does not have an appreciation for these things which is his right. I do not contest that.
If he says those things, historical objects, works of art, our whole heritage and past are worth nothing, then he has a right to think that. However, I remind him of the famous words of George Santayana that those of us who do not remember history run at least the risk of repeating it.