Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think certainly in terms of Holocaust testimony we know that roughly 2,000 testimonies currently exist, but they are in various formats. Sometimes it's VHS. Some of it's deteriorating, so it's a matter of taking what currently exists and bringing it up to the latest technological standards and preserving, indexing, documenting it in a way that would facilitate access by the public.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Perhaps as a final word, Mr. Chair, recognizing the central role of Holocaust survivors and that Holocaust survivors have played, particularly in the Canadian educational system, Canada became the home to some 40,000 Holocaust survivors after the war and we're a nation that has been profoundly shaped by that immigration.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think the challenge always with a decentralized system of education is that you can develop guidelines and tools. It's ensuring that those are actually used in the classroom. The question came up earlier about what some of the obstacles are. I think the obstacle remains getting the individual teachers engaged in a way that they feel comfortable teaching an extremely complex and difficult issue.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Certainly through our multiculturalism program we have supported some initiatives to get tools into schools. One of the notable initiatives of Mr. Tony Comper, co-founder of Fighting Antisemitism Together, was the development of a tool kit for teachers which I think has been distributed to schools and 800,000 students.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There will be a public event as well.