Fisheries committee  I think there's some variety. Most of them are not being operated as attractions, per se. Some of them do house other functions.

Fisheries committee  I have no opinion on those specific lighthouses. From a heritage perspective, the primary consideration in deciding which lighthouses would merit being designated would be their heritage value.

Fisheries committee  They have their own act, but Parks Canada is responsible.

Fisheries committee  There are currently none.

Fisheries committee  The way the bill is written it applies only to federal property, so only as long as a lighthouse is held by the federal government can this act apply to it. One of the provisions of the act is that should the government want to sell a designated heritage lighthouse, then there m

Fisheries committee  I'm sure the provinces wouldn't consider it downgrading, but, yes, we do have some experience with that, both in terms of consulting with local and provincial interests when we are considering designating a federal heritage building and then also because a number of federal herit

Fisheries committee  I am unable to answer your question. For as long as these lighthouses are the property of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, it is responsible for their upkeep. We do not intend to acquire more lighthouses, even though DFO would like to give them to us. I could perhaps elabo

Fisheries committee  We would only be interested if...

Fisheries committee  Funding helps, but we should also strive to acquire lighthouses that are in keeping with our objectives, for example, the ecological integrity of a park or the commemorative integrity of a site.

Fisheries committee  Not in any detail, no.

Fisheries committee  There are 14.

Fisheries committee  Parks Canada owns five of those.

Fisheries committee  That's a possibility, but no. There are sites that are owned and operated by Parks Canada. What I was referring to earlier was that in a few cases Parks Canada owns sites but a third party operates them. So we have an agreement with a third party that operates the sites.

Fisheries committee  That's right.

Fisheries committee  No. There are about 150 of those. About 50 sites are owned by other federal government departments, and then the balance, which are about 700 sites, are owned outside the federal government. These are national historic sites that are owned by provincial or municipal governments,