Ottawa, Canada, 25 October 2006 - His Highness the Aga Khan and The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of Canadian Heritage, signed a funding agreement for the Global Centre for Pluralism in the presence of The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada. The Global Centre for Pluralism is a major new international centre for research, education and exchange about the values, practices and policies that underpin pluralist societies. The Centre, to be housed in the Old War Museum, a historic Heritage Building, will start its programmatic activities in 2007.