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e-1494 (Canadian heritage)
- Keywords
- City of Québec
- Cultural artifacts
E-petition
Initiated by Luc Renaud from Québec, Quebec
Original language of petition: French
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas :
- Parks Canada must keep all of its local artifacts in Quebec City and the Trudeau government must abandon its plan to move the extensive collection to Gatineau, keeping only selected objects in the Quebec capital for public display;
- The federal government must commit to keeping all historical objects in their context (in Quebec City or elsewhere) so that scientists do not have to travel to Gatineau to study, analyze, document and restore these objects;
- Plans to open an archeological centre at the Séminaire de Québec must go ahead in order to retain all local artifacts and end the government’s cultural deportation.
We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:
1. Support the proposed storage facility at the Séminaire de Québec, where Quebec City, Laval University and Quebec’s Ministry of Culture and Communications want to house their collections together.
2. Provide resources to maintain and restore artifacts so that future generations can benefit.
3. Support groups or institutions that want to repatriate their artifacts (e.g., the Mi’kmaq of Restigouche, the families of people expropriated from Forillon, Musée de Gaspé, etc.).
- Open for signature
- April 3, 2018, at 11:49 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- August 1, 2018, at 11:49 a.m. (EDT)
