Yes.
Evidence of meeting #29 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was parks.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #29 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was parks.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC
Mr. McNamee, we visited Banff and Jasper and heard from a number of advocacy organizations. We spoke with the superintendents in both parks about the bike path that was funded in the recent budget. From the superintendents' perspective, it wasn't an infrastructure investment that they had pushed forward, according to them.
I'm curious to know how a project like that, which was not assessed, got into the mix in the budget.
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Director, Protected Areas Establishment Branch, Parks Canada Agency
The budget that comes down is a government budget, Mr. Amos, and as a civil servant, I can't speak to it any more than that. That's what was announced in the budget.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay. I feel really bad about having this tension of the time. We started late and had two panels, which means that I pushed everybody to half an hour later, and we have 15 minutes of work that we still have to do within the committee.
I want to thank the three of you for being here and for answering our questions. Again, there were some questions for some further information. We would love to have that sooner rather than later, because we are going to start drafting instructions at the very beginning of November. We would like to have that in our hands before we do that, and I know that sometimes there's translation. If you could get that to us, that would be fantastic.
Again, thank you.
Mr. Eglinski.
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Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
I was just wondering if we could ask them to come back at the end of our study. I think it might be quite valuable to hear from them.
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An hon. member
The subcommittee should discuss that.
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Yes. Let's do that quickly.
Does anybody else have any specific questions you'd like them to answer?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
No, not here, but to have it written. We need to hurry, guys, because they have to go.
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Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
Ms. D'Amelio, you talked about the national strategy for rivers in the United States. Could you send us a copy of that?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
That would be fantastic.
Thank you so much. I'm sorry to have to rush us on to the next section.
We'll take one minute and then get started again in camera.
[Proceedings continue in camera]
