On this historic buildings contribution, I just want to say that in my constituency, in Fort Simpson, there is a historical society that has been formed for a number of years, and has been locally involved having meetings and so forth. They're interested in saving some of the older buildings. There are a couple of older buildings in the community that were built back in the 1930s and 1940s with logs that were hewn by axe, with dovetail notches that were done with an axe, and some of these buildings are still there. There are two of them in Simpson that I'm aware of. Also, there's an old barn that was used by the experimental farm that's still there.

This heritage centre group would like to acquire land some place in the community and put these old buildings on it, so that the heritage of 1930s and 1940s could be saved. If they don't do that, these buildings will eventually rot, deteriorate and get destroyed, such as a lot of other good buildings were destroyed. This is the type of thing that communities are doing. I'm sure there are other communities that would like to save their historic buildings, such as churches and so forth that we've helped in the past. This is in line with it. These buildings were built by the local people back 50 or 60 years ago, and require saving.

Along with that, this group would also like to bring all the old equipment that's laying around up the river; such as, there was equipment there for doing farming in the old days that is still around that could be saved. People do contribute their time to sit together in a committee in a community to talk about these things which are very important to them. It's important to our history, as well. This historic buildings contribution is $60,000 for this year, and there's a community museums contribution of $175,000. I think these are good contributions, but the group in Simpson...I don't know whether they've applied. I know they have had a lot of meetings and have decided, and they're dealing in the communities on how to do this. If this government could support them and help them out in their endeavours so that they could save some of these historic buildings.

We're waiting for the policies and schedules. I know about three years ago, the Standing Committee on Finance noticed that in those days it seemed -- and maybe it's a coincidence -- that only in the Ministers' ridings, buildings of a museum nature were allocated. When we asked, there was no policy in place. So we asked for a policy and now a policy is in place along with schedules. I'm glad that the government is making a policy so that other places could have contributions go to them, not only to the Ministers' ridings. It's just a coincidence, perhaps, but that's the way it seemed at that time.

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I would just like to say, Mr. Chairman, that this is a good contribution. Too bad I don't see anything for my constituency in here. Hopefully, in the future, there will be something there. Mahsi.