Environment committee  I think 108 is the number I got from the maintenance guys.

Environment committee  I can go back and provide that. That was our initial crack at it, based on how many large signs, how many small ones, how many way-finding signs, as they're called. Some are on the islands, some are on the small islets. As I said, this gives us an opportunity to reconcile our lis

Environment committee  In fact the costing is based on more of a replacement of the sign. That's why it may not cost quite so much as we initially thought, because we might be able to salvage bits and pieces. Some of it will be what we call a capital cost, a one-time purchase of a sign, and then our re

Environment committee  Yes, it would. We've been having some initial conversations about what the total costs might be, doing an inventory of signs, and thinking about, okay, it takes our maintenance people so many hours to replace a sign, and thinking about just what we would do. That's where we've co

Environment committee  Tourism, and reaching Canadians in general—it helps with awareness of the park and the area the park is in. One of the changes, from a tourism perspective, that would make this a much more smooth partnership for Parks Canada, I would suggest, is with regard to the fact that 20

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  —so we're currently working through that.

Environment committee  I could go back and see what could be done with respect to providing more information on that.

Environment committee  Okay. Thank you.

Environment committee  We do see signage as being the major part of the cost. That's when I mentioned that we plan on phasing it in over 10 years, and maybe having something temporary for some of the other major signs. We're still figuring out the numbers, actually, just because there are a lot of isla

Environment committee  There are more signs than that. The four signs would be at the very beginning. That's why I say this is giving us a chance to double-check how many signs we have.

Environment committee  We have signs on the highway saying that the park is coming up and then we have the great big sign that says “the park is here”, so we would want to take a look at that, at the size of the signs, and different sizes of signs cost different amounts of money—

Environment committee  They've never renamed a park before in this type of a situation, where we're linking it up with tourism and branding. Two parks in Canada's north have been renamed. I understand that was as a result of land claims and negotiations. They decided to change Ellesmere Island and Nort

Environment committee  Thank you. Merci. Hello. Bonjour. It's with great pleasure that I come before this committee today to talk to you about the proposal of Bill C-370 to rebrand St. Lawrence Islands National Park as Thousand Islands National Park. Parks Canada, which manages national parks, nation