Environment committee  In terms of Parks Canada's contribution to the 25% by 2025, we're doing it in two ways. One is on our territorial land-based commitments, where we are moving towards the creation of 10 national parks, 10 national urban parks and 10 national marine conservation areas on the water side.

Environment committee  Budget 2021 announced $55 million over five years for the expansion of the Trans Canada Trail. There are 27,000 kilometres of trails throughout many urban, rural and remote communities within Canada. We are progressing very well, flowing $11 million per year to the Trans Canada Trail association to create access routes from communities into the trail.

Environment committee  Thank you very much. In terms of the organizations involved in this protection effort, it's a wide range of stakeholders, including provinces, municipalities and indigenous groups. I don't have an exact, detailed list. It is extremely long. As I said earlier, everything we do, within Parks Canada, is relationship- and collaboration-based, with a high level of engagement.

Environment committee  Yes, absolutely. The amount hasn't decreased. What you see is $700,000 for contributions, but you'll see in a different section of the mains that it's $300,000 for grants. We now have the authority to issue grants, as opposed to contributions. It's $1 million in the main estimates.

Environment committee  I'd have to say that with Parks Canada, almost everything we do is in active engagement and collaboration with our indigenous partners, from the establishment of new sites, national parks and national marine conservation areas.... We're also working on an indigenous stewardship framework for our cultural assets.

Environment committee  Absolutely. I'll turn to Jewel Cunningham, who is our vice-president of strategic policy, to touch on that. As a brief introduction, Parks Canada is very active in the preservation of land and contributes dramatically to the targets for 25 by 2025 and 30 by 2030. It's in connecting them that we really get the true value of the conservation and protection activities.

Environment committee  I'm going to turn to David Millar, who is the vice-president of real property and assets, to respond to your question. Thank you.

Environment committee  Parks Canada is a leader in the federal government for youth employment. Annually, we hire approximately 1,600 students to work across the country in rural and remote communities. The jobs that we provide range from science, conservation and protection to visitor experience. Really, it is an entryway for us to bring youth into conservation and protection.

Environment committee  Thank you very much. The $35 million that you see in the supplementary estimates is really just an interim measure to protect our workforce. We are working on a long-term capital plan, so looking at what funding we require in the short and long term and developing options. Right now we are on a path to renewal.

Environment committee  As you can imagine, with an asset base of 18,000 assets across the country and a portfolio worth $26 billion, it's a very complex portfolio in terms of the types of assets we have. As you know, we have bridges, dams, fortifications, national historic sites and visitor centres. The portfolio requires a very highly skilled and sometimes very specialized workforce.

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. You're right, $4.2 billion is certainly a staggering amount of money. It was used to fund 1,000 projects across the country over the past seven or eight years. Since then, nearly 80% of the projects have been completed. It is true that the funding program will end when the fiscal year ends.

Environment committee  The amount of money in 2020-21 has gone down for capital by $144 million, but in terms of how it will affect us, we still have $750 million to invest this fiscal year in our assets, and that's exactly what we're doing. It is a decrease, but we still have significant capacity to continue to make progress on improving the condition of our assets.

Environment committee  The additional funding for 2021-22 is $220 million.

Environment committee  We will have a reference level of about $500 million next year as well.

Environment committee  Yes. That account is a special account where we put money aside for the protection and establishment of protected areas. Right now what we're doing in these estimates is depositing $9.3 million into that account. Currently, we have $98.4 million deposited and set aside for the establishment of new parks and national historic sites.