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Public Accounts committee Our specialist is Genevieve. We brought her to answer just exactly that type of question.
May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Public Accounts committee Let me respond for Parks Canada, and then my colleagues might want to respond for their own departments. You're absolutely right. Successive audits found that for Parks Canada, significant investment was required to address a decline in a number of our historic buildings and our
May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Public Accounts committee We have a complete list of properties that belong to us, in the regions. The problem had to do with making a national list, which we are currently updating and which should be ready in the fall of 2019.
May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Public Accounts committee That is a very broad question. We are currently implementing a significant investment project.
May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Public Accounts committee I can get by in French, it's just that the word in French is a bit complicated. So we are talking about a $3.5-billion investment project. We are currently improving the condition of many properties on our sites.
May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Public Accounts committee It is definitely one of its jewels.
May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Public Accounts committee Yes, it's tremendous. We actually have a number of small projects for that site. That said, you are correct—a number of Canada's historic sites are threatened by climate change, and Louisbourg is one of them.
May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Madam Chair. You've already introduced my colleagues, but just to repeat, you have representatives here from Parks Canada, the Department of National Defence and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. I would like to begin by thanking the chair and the committee mem
May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Environment committee In fact, budget 2019 allocates $368 million over two years for capital asset renewal at Parks Canada. That funding will be spent in 2020-21 and 2021-22 and allocated to the kinds of issues that you raise: maintenance of our assets in the face of a number of challenges, including
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Environment committee You're right. In fact, we are working with the Department of Finance on a longer-term plan for asset management and asset maintenance and recapitalization at Parks Canada, well into the future. We're hopeful that in the coming months we will have developed, collaboratively, a sol
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Environment committee Parks Canada manages a very large asset base. A number of our assets are heritage places, and some of those risk being impacted by climate change. Others include significant transportation infrastructures. Indeed, as the committee is probably aware, we're responsible for a number
February 27th, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Environment committee We would work with Transport Canada on the transportation side of the equation. We are now assessing our own assets regularly in terms of climate change considerations both in the north and across southern Canada.
February 27th, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Environment committee I should have known that. I apologize.
February 27th, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Environment committee I would encourage all of you to read the Gwaii Haanas management plan that was tabled recently in Parliament. Under our legislation under the National Parks Act, these management plans must be tabled in Parliament. That plan really truly is a statement on co-management and collab
February 27th, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler
Environment committee It's a complementary phenomenon. The funding—
February 27th, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Nadler