Environment committee  I don't believe so.

Environment committee  I don't believe so.

Environment committee  I'm fairly new to Parks. I wish I could give you a more comprehensive answer, but in terms of townsite management, it is a real collaboration. In the case of Banff, it's an incorporated municipality, so it has quite a bit of power, unlike any other townsite. My experience so fa

Environment committee  That's a good question. Gosh, we are always trying to hire folks. It's hard to say. Staffing anywhere is a challenge in a country with a fairly active labour market. I think the important part, and my colleague didn't quite touch on this, is that we work very closely with our b

Environment committee  I didn't say that. I just said there is a balance in how one does human resources in that complex environment.

Environment committee  I will add to what my colleague said with two quick comments. As you pointed out, there's a negotiation to every park. That's why when we fund these things, the way we get them funded is, in phase one, through planning and negotiation. That will then dictate other elements as to

Environment committee  I can't speak to the money, but there was a recent change, which just got through the Senate and we're awaiting royal assent, under our Bill C-18. It allowed us to change the nature of that account so that we could actually invest in existing parks, additions and expansions. Yo

Environment committee  I don't have it either, because it's not my part of the organization, but we do a lot of that work. If the committee is interested in that information, we can certainly take that back and share it with you.

Environment committee  What I was saying was that they haven't yet negotiated the going-forward approach. The first step was to deal with the back payments, which went back to 1997.

Environment committee  Going forward?

Environment committee  It might be, but it hasn't been negotiated yet. If you do those kinds of numbers, it will be over $1 million a year—$1.2 million or something of that nature, probably—but it's still to be negotiated.

Environment committee  I'm sorry, I don't know. Again, we don't do those negotiations. We just pay the bill.

Environment committee  It's a reasonable assumption, and we will do our best to budget towards those things.

Environment committee  It's still undergoing its environmental assessment, which is the normal process. Right now, they're doing the environmental assessment in various segments along the way, and any further action has to be subsequent to that assessment being completed. Some of the money that was all

Environment committee  I'll try to answer that. It's not Parks Canada that actually maintains the government's payment in lieu of taxes program. PSPC does that on behalf of the entire federal portfolio. We have a very big portfolio. We also have very unique properties across the country. This particu