Environment committee  I'm pleased to report that some of the 40 are law enforcement officers down there looking for speeders and dumpers and other people like that.

Environment committee  Thank you very much for the question. I would say that setting up a national park is a breathtaking experience. Parks Canada has done it 46 times, and they are always complicated. Part of this is about the creation of a park from 1922, with the business of the Garden River excis

Environment committee  Sir, in terms of the accomplishments, a number of things are going on, and I'll get to the numbers here in a moment. I may have to get back with the specifics. We've begun, in partnership with the conservation authority, to offer programming. One of the biggest things that we'v

Environment committee  Thank you very much for the question. I think the first reason it's important is that the province was very clear that without changes to the legislation it was not going to transfer the land. Having an entire contiguous body of land under a single regime that is a known regime,

Environment committee  The first I saw of it was when it was shown here, so this is a short-term assessment. I guess I would say a couple of things, though. The first is that Canada's national parks are national treasures, and they're for all Canadians. We have learned, sometimes the hard way, over t

Environment committee  It's incredibly important. When we set up the first national park in the country, it was something that was brand new. Over time that has served to change the way Canadians see themselves. In the past, we created parks where the land and the natural treasures were. This time, w

Environment committee  The draft of that management plan, of course, went out in 2014, and it would be replaced with another one in 2017. We've been working with the province closely on a number of things, mostly on the land transfer at this point in time. I can't honestly say whether or not they've re

Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the opportunity to address the committee as it begins its review of Bill C-18. I look forward to the committee's deliberations. Rouge National Urban Park, set to become one of the world's largest urban protected areas, is special in its protection of

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We work very closely with the provinces and territories on this, because on the land mass, they are the biggest holders of the land there. As the minister pointed out, it does need to meet the standards set by the IUCN, and we have agreement between the federal government and th

Environment committee  As has been asked, particularly in relation to the national marine conservation area of the Southern Strait of Georgia, that is an area where we're continuing ongoing consultations, particularly with indigenous groups in that area and other interested players. That's moving along

Environment committee  This is an area that's been of great interest to provinces, municipalities, and some other players in the country for a long time, as you may well know. They've been asking for this for a number of years, so we're working closely with them through an existing federal, provincial,