Environment committee  It gives complimentary admission. Thank you very much for your question.

Environment committee  Yes. Thanks very much. I appreciate that, because a lot of exciting things are happening at Parks Canada. We did some research and some analysis within parks and highlighted youth and new Canadians as a population group that we needed to be more active with and with which we nee

Environment committee  Well, I am relatively new at Parks. I've been with Parks for a couple of years, so it's not from personal experience that I'm speaking. Parks Canada did go through a series of cutbacks, as all departments did following 2012. One of the areas where we tried to absorb the pressure

Environment committee  Thank you very much for that. This is a very core issue for Parks Canada. We've provided just a very short overview on page 40 of the document that we shared with you, which was also used to brief the minister. We call it “development pressure”. As you said, there are pressures

Environment committee  Thank you. They were created at a time when people wanted golf courses and other development opportunities in the park. The new parks now are created often in collaboration with first nations, and the visitors' services and the businesses are located outside the park. There has

Environment committee  Just to clarify, are you specifically speaking about built heritage assets or the...?

Environment committee  On built heritage, there is nothing specific in the document, and I don't have anything specific with me—

Environment committee  So you're looking at the state of...?

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes, it is. Revenues are on page 11. In a year, Parks Canada makes roughly $120 million in re-spendable revenues. About half of that is from entry fees. The other half is land rents and other lease arrangements from buildings that we rent out or lease out, or from event fees that

Environment committee  On the first one, there is a public report that reviews the built asset portfolio of Parks Canada and includes both the heritage side and highways, dams, and waterways. It deals with all 12,000 assets. That is already public, and I can provide it easily.

Environment committee  I guess I'm just trying to figure out if it's more specific than that.

Environment committee  The first one? Okay. No problem. On the second one, are you asking for a status update on which areas are being considered for new parks establishment?

Environment committee  Parks Canada has an ongoing series of discussions with provinces, territories, and indigenous groups across the country to advance thinking and planning for national parks. They can be at all stages of the process, and indeed some of the discussions around establishing a new park

Environment committee  It's difficult when you're one of three potential partners—provinces, territories, and the local indigenous groups—that need to agree on the boundaries and on establishing new parks. Internally we have our focus on advancing some of those discussions, but in some ways we're very