'Owning' Military History

[rob love]

Personally, as both a collector and as a museum employee, I feel the governments are trying to use legislation to cover up the expense of their short shortsightedness in the past. Unfortunately, here in Canada, we do not have property rights, and the government can legislate private property back into crown property without compensation.

The Canadian Forces are much better today about ensuring that examples of equipment remain in the museum system, but it was not that many years ago I saw that there was no interest in the "currently being disposed of" stuff. For instance, how many 5/4 tons or M151A2s do you see in any museum in Canada.

His statement smells like communism to me.