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Canadian Heritage committee Thank you for your question, Ms. Boutin-Sweet. It's very good coming from you, because you worked in a museum, in Pointe-à-Callière in Montreal, so you know our field. In terms of the funding question and the $25 million, it certainly would be nice, but I would point out to yo
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
John McAvity
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
John McAvity
Canadian Heritage committee Yes, 40 years.
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
John McAvity
Canadian Heritage committee I would not agree with that. There's the willingness and the desire to do it. What there may be is a problem with environmental controls at some of those very small museums, and that would be a legitimate reason, because we have to be very concerned about temperature, light, humi
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
John McAvity
Canadian Heritage committee Yes. The other point I'd like to make is that today we're spending a lot of time talking about history, but I think a lot of people are coming at it from the point of view of putting a capital-H on “History”, and local museums, as you've mentioned, are using small-h history, wit
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
John McAvity
Canadian Heritage committee We've been completely supportive of developing private sector philanthropy to help museums. Currently in Canada the museum community is receiving about 9% of its total revenue by way of donations. I don't mean donations of artifacts, I mean donations of money. That is much lower,
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
John McAvity
Canadian Heritage committee I would like to comment that I've worked in the museum profession for about 40 years, in New Brunswick, Ontario, and now in Ottawa. When I look at the capacity and powers outlined in this legislation, they are consistent with what a museum does. With respect to questions such
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
John McAvity
Canadian Heritage committee Sir, we are completely supportive of Bill C-49, and we are certainly aware of the comments of a number of other people who have been supportive of the legislation as well.
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
John McAvity
Canadian Heritage committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. That was quite an enjoyable lesson in parliamentary procedure.
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
John McAvity
Canadian Heritage committee The Canadian Museums Association or CMA is delighted to be here to provide our advice and commentary on Bill C-49. We are the national not-for-profit association for museums, art galleries, and related institutions across Canada. We have almost 2,000 members located in every prov
June 5th, 2013Committee meeting
John McAvity
Official Languages committee Mostly museums deal with objects, and not so much with documents. We deal with the stories behind the objects or, in the case of song and dance, with bringing them to life. There are some wonderful examples in the museum world of aboriginal tales, myths, and stories being brought
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John McAvity
Official Languages committee That's a really good question. Offhand, a number of iconic images come to my mind about Canada, in the very early periods. In fact, just a week or two ago I was at the Museum of Civilization for the official announcement of its name change and they brought out a number of thing
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John McAvity
Official Languages committee Mr. Dion, I think one of the principal recommendations we've made is over the structure of how the celebrations would be undertaken in 2017. We think it's really important that there be an arm's-length commission established with representatives from every province, from the peop
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John McAvity
Official Languages committee As we said in our presentation, certainly the national institutions deliver in both official languages, and many of the provincial institutions do as well. However, at the local level there is a need. This is why we've asked for a funding program to be put in place that would, am
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John McAvity
Official Languages committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would actually like to welcome all of you to this place, because you are in what was a museum. Perhaps someday it will be returned again, when we have better days, to the Museum of Contemporary Photography. My name is John McAvity, and I am the executiv
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John McAvity