Environment committee  I'm in a position where I have difficulty at this point answering. Maybe when I come back I'll be more prepared to respond to that, merely because I don't have everything in front of me. I didn't realize we'd go into the Rouge in this depth today.

Environment committee  On the national park, in the Canada National Parks Act, I have heard nothing that would make me believe there will be any change to ecological integrity being a first priority. On the Rouge national urban park, ecological health seems to be the thing that makes the most sense, so

Environment committee  At this point it would be that a definition of ecological health be put in legislation and in fact be the way forward with the Rouge national urban park.

Environment committee  That is correct.

Environment committee  Yes, I'm certainly happy to talk about that. Ecological integrity is a concept which in the urban environment in a national park like the Rouge national urban park in fact will not be the foundation principle that we will have there. It will be ecological health. We're looking

Environment committee  Certainly in a number of national parks and along the shorelines of a number of national historic sites and canals we're seeing anglers. In fact, in some of the consultations that we've done in urban areas in recent years, we're finding that is a major connection that people imme

Environment committee  Yes. Under the act, ecological integrity is the first priority in decision-making within national parks, and that exists today.

Environment committee  Absolutely in everything we do, as the act says, it is the first priority of our decision-making. I can't comment more than that.

Environment committee  Certainly as part of our role within the Canadian Tourism Commission and working with organizations like the Tourism Industry Association of Canada we have been trying to work towards some of those goals.

Environment committee  The founding statement, and as I said the mandate that we still work on today, was developed in the 1930s by an Ottawa resident, in fact, who lived not far from here. We've had ecological integrity as an important element within our mandate for the past 80 years.

Environment committee  It will continue to be the first priority, as long as that's our legislative base.

Environment committee  Absolutely.

Environment committee  We're starting to see some excellent movement in that. I'll mention a few of the things we have looked at. One of them, announced about a year ago, was the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Parks Canada youth ambassadors. Those youth ambassadors have gone out with a number of other y

Environment committee  Rouge park right now is in the concept stage as we're out talking to Canadians about it. It will have three areas. There will be an infrastructure area and an area of sustainable agriculture. One of the key parts in this that we've been talking to the Ontario Federation of Agricu

Environment committee  Certainly I can talk about some of the examples that we have. This is one of those areas, especially in the riverkeepers concept that is out there now. Canadians have said they very much want to participate with government in protecting shorelines and species. We have examples ev