Ms. Ellen Bertrand at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On March 19th, 2018. See this statement in context.

March 19th, 2018 / 4:10 p.m.

Director, Cultural Heritage Strategies, Parks Canada Agency

I think the situation right now in Canada itself has inconsistencies between provincial or territorial legislation, for example, and what's in the Canada Shipping Act. The Canada Shipping Act actively rewards people for going to do salvage work. These regulations, as I said earlier, would remove those from wrecks that have heritage value.

I can't comment on the Law of the Sea and how that might help or how the contradictions might be resolved by other pieces of legislation, but in the Canadian context the regulations would resolve those inconsistencies.

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