Environment committee  Mr. Chair, the investment that's reflected in the main estimates is the result of the 2014 economic action plan. The focus was on highways, bridges, historic canals, national parks, and national historic sites. In due course the government will announce the specific projects, but

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The new act that we're responsible for and now operating under, the Rouge National Urban Park Act, affords broader and stronger conservation than any legislation we've seen in Ontario up to this point. We're still waiting, from a process perspective, to get

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, in terms of our land base across Canada, we have close to 320,000 square kilometres that we manage, and we get approached across the system in terms of proposals. This is one that we've accepted subject to the environmental assessment. Currently, why it's posted is tha

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I think we have to look at the Parks Canada Agency Act and the actual mandate of Parks Canada. Parks Canada has four programs that we're responsible for. We have national parks but we also have national historic sites, so the program of commemoration, conservation, and celebratio

Environment committee  I think it's a celebration and a commemoration of young Canadians who have given up their lives for our country.

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, we are responsible for national historic sites, not only for those that we operate, but we also support the minister in the designation, so the commemoration program, and the Erebus and Terror were designated as national historic sites. They were the only two in Canada

Environment committee  At this point, we found the site. We brought back the ship bell, as you may be aware, so it's in our laboratories being restored. It may take up to 18 months. It's a bit unpredictable because it has been in the ocean for 160 years. The objective for us is first to make sure tha

Environment committee  From a Parks Canada perspective, over the next month or so, we will be able to confirm that. The Prime Minister, when he made the announcement on Monday, said that the vast majority of the federal infrastructure would be spent over a three-year period.

Environment committee  It's going to be allocated wisely, and it's going to be spent efficiently and with probity.

Environment committee  Seriously, we've done a lot of work. In 2012 we looked at our 11,000 assets and identified the condition of each and every one of them, so we know where we are with every single asset that we own. We're going to be investing the $2.8 billion. Again, it includes Parks Canada as th

Environment committee  I would say that the bulk of the $2.8 billion will be coming to Parks Canada.

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, this is all new money, so none of that—

Environment committee  The funding that's before you in the supplementary estimates is, again, for highways, bridges, and dams for this year in Parks Canada. The $2.8 billion, as mentioned, mentions the historic sites also, but those are Parks Canada owned and operated. We do have a grants and contri

Environment committee  They can access and make submissions to our grants and contributions program, for which we have a call for proposals every year.