Environment committee  I would need to take a look at the specific building you're talking about. It could be a national historic site, or it could be a federal heritage building, which is solely for federal inventory. That's an assessment that's done for buildings owned by the federal government. In

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  We will double-check the status of your national historic sites, because they should be on the registry of heritage places and the national historic sites designation list. I was going to say that to be on the list you need to also be capable of showing the location of the site,

Environment committee  I will start. Madam Chair, members of the committee, thank you for your interest in the conservation and presentation of Canada's cultural heritage. It is a privilege to be before you today to share some of Parks Canada's knowledge about the commercial heritage properties ince

Environment committee  I was involved at the end of that program. I was the manager of certification. Mainly I was working with the conservation architects who were doing the assessment of eligibility of projects and whether they were doing the right thing compared to the standards and guidelines, the

Environment committee  They are comparable, because they are both contribution programs. One is for non-profit, and the other one was directed to the private sector. We're running the cost-sharing the same way we'd been running the CHPIF program. We have certification officers, service providers, but t

Environment committee  A contribution program, yes.

Environment committee  There are none when it comes to built heritage sites as such.

Environment committee  I would not go as far as to comment on that. However, I am simply saying that such a program did exist and it worked. That said, it only lasted three years. It was a pilot project. There were also some issues related to the fact that the program was very new. Assessments found so

Environment committee  That is an excellent question that would require further consideration. But I can perhaps give you some answers. Right now, my testimony is more personal than that of a public service employee. The relationship we had with other entities or governments was working fairly well,

Environment committee  A contribution program is still different from a grant program. At the outset, before an agreement is reached, the program will impose certain constraints. Even before signing a contribution agreement, the applicant is told what will be required of them for their project to be fu

Environment committee  Exactly, but that was really an exception. In general, people wanted to get the money.

Environment committee  I'm going to build on what my colleague just said, but more in terms of Canadian Heritage versus Parks Canada. I was asked in a previous question if there are other types of funding available, and yes, Canadian Heritage provides funding. Typically Canadian Heritage is more conce

Environment committee  I don't have a definitive answer to that, but if you ask what the simplest way to do that is, contribution programs are always easy to put together—or easier. That's not to say that it is easy, but it is something that we know better. We know the mechanisms, and we know how to pu

Environment committee  I have a short list here, which I prepared just in case you asked for some examples. In New Brunswick, there's the CenterBeam Place, which is half of a corner of a.... It's really a block of buildings downtown. In the same province we have the Hartt Boot and Shoe Factory, an ol