Fisheries committee  There are all kinds of wooden lighthouses.

Fisheries committee  It's very difficult to come up with a number across the country right now, although I hope we'll have that soon. As an example, we have always had the greatest number of lights in Canada in Nova Scotia. At one time we had 350 lighthouses within the province of Nova Scotia. Right

Fisheries committee  They take very good care of their lighthouses in P.E.I.

Fisheries committee  That's pretty close. We have the really old lighthouses like the Imperial Towers on the Great Lakes, on both coasts, and in Cap des Rosiers in Quebec, for instance. They're built from stone and they're very old lighthouses from the mid-1800s. Newfoundland and Labrador has the g

Fisheries committee  I can speak to this in two ways. As I said earlier in my presentation, part of our mandate, at the end of the day, is to get as many of these lighthouses transferred to community groups as there are viable community groups who will accept them. That definitely is part of our mand

Fisheries committee  In Nova Scotia we have limited involvement with the province, I would have to say, at the present time. There are a couple of reasons for that. In Nova Scotia we take our lighthouses seriously, even at the provincial level. Of course Peggy's Cove is our tourist icon and featured

Fisheries committee  You can't miss it; it's as big as the wall back there. So the province fully realizes the tourism value, and they also realize the cultural and heritage value. The lighthouses are very much a part of the heritage fabric of our province, as they are in all maritime provinces, whe

Fisheries committee  When you go to his lighthouse, you almost feel you should take off your shoes when you go inside, really. This is how well he takes care of this lighthouse. This lighthouse has not been divested, but Monsieur Foucreault has taken it upon himself, and he's got the passion I spoke

Fisheries committee  I have one comment. A good part of the cost to put these light stations like Mr. Noreau's back in shape is because there has been nothing done to these buildings for so long. Mr. Noreau can back me up on this. Once these light stations were destaffed--I can speak from experience

Fisheries committee  I didn't think about this in my closing remarks. You have to realize that it's been told to me many, many times over the past 12 years that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans is in the marine safety business, not in the heritage business. To go back to your earlier comments

Fisheries committee  There's been an inventory done over the past couple of years by DFO, to come up with the number of possible candidates under this bill. While I don't have the exact figure, it's somewhere in the vicinity of 250 lighthouses that would be possible candidates. Someone came up with t

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Stoffer.

Fisheries committee  The issue of funding is one I really can speak to. I join my colleague Mr. Noreau in saying we'd like to have a wheelbarrow full of money for every lighthouse in the Maritimes. We realize that's not going to happen right away. My understanding is that this bill will put in place

Fisheries committee  I don't think that was the intent of the bill. I'm not a legal expert, and correct me if I'm wrong, but a lot of this will be defined when criteria and some of the specifics are written up for the bill. We have one example in Nova Scotia, which is an excellent one. This lighthou

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to speak to this committee on Bill S-215, which seeks to protect our heritage lighthouses. It's been a long road since the first meeting of the lighthouse protection act committee was held in Halifax in early 1999. In February of 2000 t