We very much hesitate to recommend organizational change. We think it's really up to government to decide how it wants to organize itself.
The main issue we're raising here is that the regime within Parks Canada would appear to be appropriate because there is a law and there's a policy. For all of the heritage sites, they're managed or owned by departments other than Parks Canada—for example, national defence, public works, even fisheries and oceans. They are only subject to a Treasury Board policy, which only covers buildings. It doesn't cover other sites, archaeological sites, for example, or canals. As well, there is a really serious disconnect between the activities of designating a historic site and then the funding and the activities for conservation.
So you have operating departments. We have an example in here, in the Minister of National Defence, who will have to put several million dollars into restoring the Halifax armoury. Well, that may not be the highest priority for them. The same thing at fisheries and oceans, to be maintaining and conserving lighthouses when they are facing budget crunches.
So there's a real dilemma, I think, for those operating departments, and yet these sites are continuing to be designated.