Environment committee  Who's to say, but I would say, given reality, since the government has established it at $10 million and did it for two years, I think that level should be maintained. In other words, it would be nice if it were higher. If it's to go lower, I think all the good things that we've

Environment committee  That may not be classified as a site, in fact. It's part of the program, but we'd have to look it up. It may have actually gone through as an event. In other words, it represented a form of transportation, etc., which was important in opening up this area economically but a movea

Environment committee  I think you've described something that is natural, given the development of the country, and the important thing is to try always to find out whether there are areas that are under-represented in programs or under-represented in terms of emphasis of attention by the government o

Environment committee  Yes, and our agenda is totally driven, pretty well, by public interest as we receive those nominations from the public for persons, places, or events. If it's a place, all right, it's going to get its plaque. The plaque will be installed and there will be a ceremony and some reco

Environment committee  Parks Canada is responsible to make sure they are maintained. There is a program, and they certainly are replaced when it's identified. If the text on the plaque is more than 25 years old, it will be re-examined in terms of the most recent historiography because, of course, one h

Environment committee  There is a focus for the federal role here. It's obviously in the national historic sites it owns. That's the easiest part of the puzzle. The legislation can apply there quite directly, and it's quite easy to do that. You have FHBRO now, which is an office that executes the prov

Environment committee  Parks Canada owns 171 national historic sites. There are 65 owned by other federal bodies. That's the universe we're talking about. Nominations come to our board for the designation of a place as a national historic site. There are certain criteria and policies that we operate w

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I'm sure members of the committee are used to getting a tremendous amount of information in a short period of time, but information overload, I know, is always a problem on these occasions. Just to identify myself more completely, I'm actually