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Environment committee  There was one act in the proposed bill dealing exclusively with national historic sites. The other proposed act in that bill was the historic places of canada act, and it dealt with the other matters, including the register of the standards and guidelines, federal heritage buildi

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  I worked for 35 years for Parks Canada. I spent some time working closely with colleagues in national parks. The one thing that always astonished me was the importance of the Canada National Parks Act, and I say that admiringly. In other words, that very strong piece of legislati

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  I think the $20-million ask on cost-sharing should go to the non-federally owned sites to help them out. I think that within the Parks Canada context the needs should be met by looking at some internal reallocation.

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  I 'd say the same thing. The last departmental performance report contained no information for Parks Canada on how much money was spent on national historic sites.

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  Obviously, I think you could say, a major reason why this legislative initiative petered out was that at the end of 2003, control and supervision of the Parks Canada Agency was transferred from the Minister of Canadian Heritage to the Minister of the Environment. Clearly this was

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  In the interdepartmental meetings we had, there was a lot of discussion about the extra costs associated with heritage conservation. We did reach I think what was a fairly general consensus on the 20% figure. The heritage people said they thought that was a little high, so we gav

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  It's just as the Canadian Environmental Protection Act gives departments and agencies the authority to spend money on environmental assessment.

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  No, John. In my dreams I thought it would be lovely to come to work on Parliament Hill every day, which in my view is a premier national historic site. The idea was not to do that.

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  Ongoing use is a very important function of heritage character.

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  While funding for Parks Canada has increased significantly since 2013, expenditures on national historic sites and all cultural heritage programs within Parks Canada are down by about 15%, I believe. There's a structural problem here. It's not just a money problem. It's how the m

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  Once more unto the breach.... In terms of priorities—I understand that this question also came up on Tuesday—I'd like to address specifically the notion of competing priorities and competing interests. You heard on Tuesday about the need for dramatically enhanced funding for cost

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  I don't think a rural lens specifically has been applied. However, certainly in the early 2000s, when I was looking at these sorts of things, national historic sites were located in over 400 communities across the country. There are 900-and-some places that have been designated a

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  In terms of what is going on today, Parks Canada officials would be in a better position to comment on that than somebody like me. I've been out of the business since 2003. I really can't comment.

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett

Environment committee  There are various forms of protection, protection against public activities, for example, in a national park or a national historic site, where the public access is controlled. There is some legal framework to deal with that. In the case of cultural heritage properties, where i

September 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Gordon Bennett