Mr. Speaker, last weekend, we had the Minister of Canadian Heritage come to Winnipeg to announce the museum of history and what it meant to sign a partnership with Winnipeg. The excitement of the people in the museum and the children who came was just a fine example of what they were looking forward to in this country.
What they are looking forward to is sharing the artifacts. One point that was made was that a lot of our artifacts in Winnipeg have never been outside the city of Winnipeg, and people have not had the pleasure of being able to view them. This new initiative is very exciting to Canadians. They could share and enjoy history. They would not have to come to Ottawa to do that. Everything would be shared across the country.
I have a question for the member opposite. Does this member not want to share our great history with our great nation, from province to province to province, and do it in such a way that ordinary people could see it without having to spend a whole lot of money to come to a national museum in Ottawa? Does he not want them to have it right in their home town or city, where they could learn about what has happened all across our vast nation? I would just like his opinion on that.