Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I want to welcome our witnesses.
To continue, if it stays with DFO we're not saying there's not a problem, but they continue to maintain the heritage structures plus the related infrastructure for access.
The problem, as I see it, or a couple of problems.... If there's one designation or a hundred designations, it seems obvious to me that it's going to put added pressure on your existing budget, which is going to be watered down. You're going to have that many more heritage structures to try to assist from your present budget, which won't be increased, it doesn't seem, by this legislation. So that seems to be a fundamental problem. I don't know how you respond to that. If you don't have enough money now, if you have one or a hundred designations, there are going to be requests for money for that. So that's the first one.
The bigger one is if a community group petitions and a lighthouse or light station is designated, and if they are successful in getting money from you and other sources to maintain the heritage structure, the integrity of the place, then access, to me, seems the obvious biggest problem. How are they going to maintain access to it? If it is not DFO's, it's a community group's, and they can only get some money from you for keeping the heritage integrity or whatever. So to me that seems to be perhaps the biggest problem we're facing here. And of course if they can't access the place, then....
I don't know how you respond to that, but I think access is probably going to be one of the more serious issues of all this once it flushes out.