Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for being here. As someone from Alberta, I always enjoy the wonderful parks we have. Last year I spent some time at Waterton, Banff and Jasper. I ended up buying a couple of passes, but that's because I took two different vehicles at times. Nevertheless, it's a great experience and it's something we should be so proud of, as I know that especially people in your department are.
What I want to ask, Mr. Nadler, goes directly to the estimates. In your remarks, you mentioned that Parks Canada's total authorities for 2022-23 will be over $1 billion. You further suggested that Canadians “face barriers to visiting and camping” in our outdoors, which of course there are a lot of different reasons for.
My colleague Mr. Mazier submitted an Order Paper question in which he asked for the breakdown of money spent by each park towards promotion in 2022. One of the areas that you're saying the sector money will go towards is promoting awareness for things like the learn to camp program. Your department signed off on the response to this Order Paper question, saying that they don't track metrics like that.
We hear about the number of visitors or the projections of spending on this program or that program. My question to you is this. If your department tells Parliament that it doesn't track how much money each park spends on promotion, how are we to know that this extra funding is going to be used to adequately promote awareness of programs like learn to camp?