Transport committee  If you want to add the words "or restoration," we would agree.

Transport committee  "Or restoration."

Transport committee  I was just going to say that if you do a search in the act as it was, there's not even a mention of environment, but if you look at the amendments now, there's a lot of environment and ecological integrity in there. For us it is right in line with where we want to go. What it mea

Transport committee  Actually, the agreement transfers control and management. As far as we are concerned, this agreement has been finalized. The control and management of the land must obviously have been handled because, as you say, the CEGEP was built. We manage the land, but we still have to tran

Transport committee  Actually, the 1960 and 1997 boundaries are not exactly the same, but the 1997 and 2008 boundaries are.

Transport committee  The 1997 and the 2008 boundaries are the same and they are set out in the technical description that is attached. The description was prepared by land surveyors; I did not do it myself. One of the reasons why the process is so long is that there is a part of the Pontiac region th

Transport committee  I will give you the same answer as before. Our only concern is for the management of the Park. Priorities must be determined. Does that mean that there will be no investments in physical facilities for the park, such as the visitor service centre and other places, and that all th

Transport committee  There is a lot in that question. I've often heard the Gatineau Park and the greenbelt referred to as the two lungs of the capital region. They are really two very important assets in the region. We consider them both national treasures that we have the mandate to manage and take

Transport committee  It's interesting because you're really pointing at one of the big challenges of the NCC in terms of acting locally with a national mandate. You're talking about these communities—and I'm assuming you're talking about the municipalities here—and we have a national mandate. So when

Transport committee  If I may, on that point, what's interesting is that in the last two years, in terms of the executive committee that was in the legislation, this board has never made use of the executive committee because the board meets more regularly. With the technology today, the board is inv

Transport committee  Mr. Nadeau, I hope that this will answer your question. Since 1997, when the board ruled on the boundaries of Gatineau Park, there has been no sale of land within these boundaries to private interests. There have only been purchases. As you know, within the boundaries of Gatine

Transport committee  You know that the 17% is covered by a management and operation agreement with Quebec. The agreement that was signed with the province requires reciprocal approvals from each party on what will be done with this land. So if we wanted to do anything at all with that 17% of the area

Transport committee  The land you are talking about, the 17% in the 1973 agreement, falls under this agreement. It was an exchange.

Transport committee  To answer your question properly, I should first explain how we proceed at the moment. Since I arrived at the NCC, staff have been assigned to purchase land inside the park. We get in touch with people and we go by market value. So the people have to want to sell and we have to

Transport committee  I think that there are two sides to your question. Of course, we are in favour of the park's environmental integrity. With regard to priorities, I would like to caution you about one thing. In managing Gatineau Park, conservation is a priority, as we decided in the 2005 master pl