Fisheries committee  You'll create an official process as opposed to an informal process, and I think that needs to be done. I think there's an enormous importance in legitimizing this relationship, which probably is not there now. This kind of legitimization is largely symbolic, but symbols can be

Fisheries committee  The natural historic sites process is a process of commemoration. It is a process to recognize special places, people, and events in Canada, so it is not an asset management system. It is not looking at an inventory of buildings within a complete system to decide how to manage th

Fisheries committee  I'll go first. The Government of Canada, under the historic places initiative, which has been under way for about seven or eight years now, has brought in a new concept called “statement of significance”. This has become pretty much commonplace across the country. In British Col

Fisheries committee  I would. It's a mistake.

Fisheries committee  You have to look at each on its own merits. You write that statement and you have the people who know that place well, but also there's a certain expertise in doing that. I would say that's the approach to take, to look at it that way. In terms of the question about who would be

Fisheries committee  In terms of making those choices, the Schindler's list of heritage, first of all, the proposed legislation states that the minister must “establish criteria to be taken into account in considering whether a lighthouse should be designated as a heritage lighthouse”. The minister m

Fisheries committee  If I could speak to that very briefly, in general I do not see this as a money bill. I do not see this as a big spending bill. I think this is a process bill, and it's a process that's going to set the minimum standards here. It's just going to say officially that we recognize th

Fisheries committee  In British Columbia, I would say if it's in private hands I'm a lot happier, because it's a lot easier to deal with. We have legislation in place that gives local government the power to offer any number of incentives to that private owner, if they wish to offer the incentive. Th

Fisheries committee  I noticed that there was a lot of discussion about this last week, and this is bound to come up. And as Senator Carney said, this is not a money bill. It cannot be a money bill, originally being in the Senate. And I think everyone's kind of dancing around the question and they re

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I didn't know I was next, but I'm ready to go. Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee, for the opportunity to speak to you this morning about this very important piece of legislation. I'm Rick Goodacre and I'm the executive director with Heritage B.C. We're a

Finance committee  --have been designated and identified.

Finance committee  Looking at the American model--we've had people come up from the States and talk about this--their model is a 20% tax share, tax return or tax relief, on the overall cost of rehabilitation. In terms of setting priorities, it would be--

Finance committee  It would be a corporation that would have to be applying. It would be corporate tax relief, yes.

Finance committee  On the dollar amounts, in the United States such a program was set up in 1981. There have been about 29,000 projects that have gone through that tax incentive program down there. With the historic places initiative in the early days, we estimated that the number would be about

Finance committee  When I mentioned the number 20,000, that's the number that under the historic places initiative across Canada--