Fisheries committee  In fact, we have some examples we could give you where that's exactly what's happening, where we have divested into community interests. They in fact are doing some of this as a revenue-generating way, I guess, of being able to maintain the property for other purposes. So there's

Fisheries committee  We have roughly 50 or 51 manned light stations. I think it's 27 in the Pacific, 23 in Newfoundland and Labrador, and one in New Brunswick, Machias Seal Island. Of those 51, we have no immediate plans to de-staff them and to divest of those.

Fisheries committee  Well, it's on a case-by-case basis. First of all—

Fisheries committee  In that regard, we're able to find the resources to address the urgent health and safety issues, because we're not going to allow a light station or part of it to fall down and be a hazard to citizens. We do maintain those that are in poor shape or could be a health and safety ha

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  That's correct.

Fisheries committee  If I have understood your question, you are referring to the divestiture process for lighthouses, which I have already explained. We offer lighthouses that are no longer of use to us to federal departments, and to provincial and municipal governments. So yes, the provinces may we

Fisheries committee  I think the difference is five years versus ten years. The figures I gave you in my opening remarks, which I could repeat, are predicated on 450 light stations being designated. The estimate was $461 million out of a total estimated cost of $481 million for recapitalization. Then

Fisheries committee  If we divest of it, basically we are absolving any responsibility from our department. It's now in the hands of the party to which we divest it. Sometimes there are some provisions that go along with that divestiture. They have to maintain the light, for example, in good shape fo

Fisheries committee  We have some figures that we could give the committee if you are interested. These figures come from a study on lighthouses in other countries. There is great variety among the ways in which different countries treat their lighthouses. In Canada, the figure for designated eligib

Fisheries committee  Yes. In the United States, the rate is 87%.

Fisheries committee  The United States have 460 lighthouses. Eighty seven per cent of them are designated as heritage sites.

Fisheries committee  I do not know.

Fisheries committee  I am not sure if I understand your question. This bill applies to Canada. I think that there are no studies—

Fisheries committee  —that would allow us to compare. It would be a good idea, but I do not think that there are any.