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Canadian Heritage committee Already in Quebec probably one of the biggest presences is Vélo Québec, and one of the reasons for the success of the trail in Quebec is the number of cycling routes. The 550,000 people on Le P'tit Train Du Nord is not an accident. That's a deliberate promotional activity. It's c
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee That was done by the Canada 125 Corporation, a corporation that was set up by the federal government. I happened to be one of the incorporators as well as the secretary during its existence. That was the organization that did that.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee Maybe I can go back and then go forward. In Canada 125 in 1992, the single most successful program.... By the way, the then-government of Mr. Mulroney allocated $90 million for those celebrations. One of the things we observed was that the single most successful celebration was
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee Anyway, people would write in, suggest that they were going to have a block party and say how many people were going to be there, and they'd get the equivalent number of buckets required. It was on July 1 and it was the single most successful program we had in terms of the feedba
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee We are in the position where, for instance, if we talk about signage, it's a matter of fitting signage into the kinds of grants that the government gives to support the infrastructure program for the trail. So that's one thing. We have things like using, as a training ground, t
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee There are probably two things that I would suggest. One is that I think completing the trail would be a tremendous statement, both in terms of the commitment to.... Well, it's not just both; it's commitment to our history, to our cultural origins, to our country in terms of its g
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee They are going very well.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee It's more a matter of putting up signs. To be honest, we are making a lot of headway with municipalities in that they now recognize that the trail brings in tourism revenue. Take, for example, the Parc linéaire Le P'tit Train du Nord recreational rail trail. I was talking to th
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee In fact, probably the most successful programs we've had are where the municipalities have made their municipality part of the Trans Canada Trail. I'll give you an example. In Charlottetown, P.E.I., there is an old people's home that happens to be adjacent to the trail, where t
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here today. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee. I have been involved in the Trans Canada Trail since 1992, which is either a tribute to my stupidity or a demonstration of dedication, I'm not sure which. I can te
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee That's a very good point. I'll hark back to my experience as the secretary of Canada 125. The first thing to mention is that Canada 125 was done like a nine-alarm drill. It only started months before the actual year and, as a result, we were playing catch-up ball virtually from
November 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee I guess what I would say to you is that our first mission is to finish linking the trails. To the extent that any of these historic sections are part of that overall linking, absolutely we include them. Our next step after the linkage is to develop what we call the feeder trail
November 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee These are very interesting questions. Let us talk first about funding. Whether it is Canada 150, Parks Canada, Environment Canada or any other agency that provides funding does not really matter to us. If it gets into the budget, yes, that would be fantastic. I am struck by one
November 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee After 2000, the Trans Canada Trail was faced with quite a challenge, because a lot of people sort of said, well, that's done, and went off somewhere else. Since then, a lot of rebuilding has taken place on the Trans Canada Trail as far as the organization goes. One of the chall
November 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge
Canadian Heritage committee We are sharing those results with Parks Canada.
November 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Paul LaBarge