Canadian Heritage committee  My understanding is that you could still apply, but I think it's the kind of organogram now where really it's the professionals who makes the difference. When I was mentioning earlier the eight-page Excel spreadsheet, for a small museum to do that is next to impossible. When I

Canadian Heritage committee  That varies.

Canadian Heritage committee  If we take the country as a whole, our figures here show that there are 106,000 volunteers. However, when you consider the number of friends of museums—the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has 100,000 friends. Do you have any idea how many—

Canadian Heritage committee  You see that the numbers change radically with the big museums and at the smaller museums, something like the Château Ramezay, which has an annual budget of $600,000, has 70 to 100 volunteers. One of the points that we made in the presentation is that we just don't know. The stu

Canadian Heritage committee  I would say that's unusual. From what I can see, there are many museums, especially the smaller museums, that have the volunteers up front. There's an emotion with a volunteer that you don't necessarily get with—

Canadian Heritage committee  Exactly. Some of them are very—

Canadian Heritage committee  We hope to do that through these two programs, our volunteer recognition program and the sovereign's medal program. Of course, in the sovereign's medal program, the museum sector is a very small part of it, but we are very active.

Canadian Heritage committee  Similarly, a task force was created in 1990 to examine the development and care of various military history collections in Canada. The terms of reference of the task force were expanded, with the consent of DND, to study the facilities, needs, and other requirements of the Canadi

Canadian Heritage committee  I have one paragraph left.

Canadian Heritage committee  —senior manager, and Anastasia Pivnicki, from our summer youth employment program, under the graduate program. Without people like Dennis and Anastasia, we wouldn't exist. It was Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, who said that Canada was a country that suffer

Canadian Heritage committee  It's simple; I'm talking.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Good morning everyone. We thank the committee for inviting the Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums to appear as witnesses for this important study the government is undertaking. With me today are Dennis Moulding, a long-time supporter of the organ