Environment committee  Just for clarification, as I don't want to mislead the hon. member, it's not our intent to go into private property without the proper authorizations. That's why in the English it does say “over” or “through” or “over private property”. It's not intended to create the right to go

Environment committee  The intent of this passage is not to contravene any of the procedures that are standard procedures for requiring warrants to enter into private property. This would not give any rights that would go counter to standard procedures that would require a warrant.

Environment committee  Thank you for your comments, Mr. Bigras. In the bill, we are proposing that agents be allowed to freely enter property, whether land or a building, to carry out inspections, to discharge their duties. In my opinion, there is agreement between the two versions. In this particula

Environment committee  We actually have that provision in our current act. In the new legislation, we have differentiated between enforcement officers who will be our warden complement and will be armed and other people who can carry out enforcement duties that could be more related to prevention and w

Environment committee  Unless they're already wardens or they're already members of a police force in another jurisdiction.

Environment committee  No. I think the agency has taken measures to make sure that its wardens operating in the field are protected. And we're very carefully delimiting their duties and responsibilities that are enforcement-officer-related responsibilities, and those will be carried out by our armed wa

Environment committee  First of all, I should say that the arming of our officers is quite a new process for Parks Canada, and we are in the process of training people, hiring people who will be armed enforcement officers, and purchase of sidearms. There is a screening process involved. We do not yet h

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. In a parallel process to this enforcement bill, which deals strictly with legislation, Parks Canada has been responding to direction from the Canada Labour Code, part II, to arm enforcement officers. We have received additional funds through Treasury

Environment committee  Well, this is actually now issuing sidearms. We're in the process right now of going through the acquisition of sidearms, of training up to 100 enforcement officers—

Environment committee  —and that will, I think, give those front-line people the safety you were talking about.