Transport committee  I'm not aware of any direct communication between ministers and provincial ministers. Personally, I was with Madame Marie Lemay, the CEO of the National Capital Commission, in Québec about a month ago, in early October. We briefed a few officials from the provincial government an

Transport committee  Yes, in short it deals with the process for amending the schedules, which include the national capital region boundaries, Gatineau Park boundaries, and the greenbelt boundaries.

Transport committee  Unfortunately, I don't have the expertise to answer that somewhat specialized question, but from what I know, in some cases relating to national parks, there has had to be an agreement with the province.

Transport committee  Exactly.

Transport committee  In fact, it would limit the power to expropriate land, based on the delimitations set out in the Act, to outside Gatineau Park. The National Capital Commission's only recourse, for property located outside the park, would be to approach the Minister of Public Works and Governmen

Transport committee  That's possible. However, you have to keep in mind that expropriation is an instrument of last resort. Normally...

Transport committee  Theoretically, yes.

Transport committee  It's complementary. If amendment BQ-10 had been accepted, it would have been logical for amendment BQ-11 to be accepted as well. The two go together. As Mr. Nadeau explained, the intent is to limit the power of expropriation.

Transport committee  The only thing I would mention is that first, what's proposed by way of changes to the expropriation portion of the act deals only with harmonization with the civil law in Quebec, as we've done with other clauses in this bill. It's worth mentioning that the expropriation process

Transport committee  Yes, and if what the Bloc Québécois is proposing were passed, it would limit the existing scope of the expropriation power that the NCC can have through the mechanism in place to Gatineau Park only; that's my understanding. But regardless of that, it would still need to go throug

Transport committee  No. We're talking about different things here. The authority to enter into a lease isn't covered at all under section 12 of the National Capital Act. Section 12 deals with proposals made by federal entities to erect or alter buildings in the National Capital Region. So we aren't

Transport committee  Exactly.

Transport committee  Right, it isn't subject to this authorization.

Transport committee  Actually it goes beyond that, because the first part of proposed section 12 deals with any land in the national capital region, and that intends to cover any federal projects that will be on lands in the region. So it's already clear in the rest of proposed section 12 that all pr

Transport committee  In fact, given that it is a property that already belongs to the Commission, the Commission will definitely have a right to oversee the design and appearance of the building and the use made of it.