Transport committee  We would have conversations with provinces about water management with the dams and dikes that we manage, but I will turn to Andrew Campbell to speak about orphaned infrastructure.

Environment committee  Chair, Parks Canada is the only federal firefighting force in Canada. We work on lands that we administer, and we work in collaboration with provincial and territorial firefighters at the provincial level and internationally. We have more than 300 firefighters engaged in a number

Environment committee  —which is more than double what normally happens. I'm sorry, Chair.

Environment committee  Parks Canada currently works within the traditional territories, treaties, lands and ancestral homelands of approximately 300 first nation, Inuit and Métis communities. We work with indigenous partners to advance stewardship and conservation of both nature and cultural heritage i

Environment committee  Sorry, Mr. Chair, I'm having an issue with my earpiece. Would you mind repeating the question, Ms. Thompson?

Environment committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, the 2020 response to the minister's round table on Parks Canada included a commitment to develop a framework to support indigenous stewardship in Parks Canada places through processes of collaboration and dialogue with indigenous peoples, in recognition of

Environment committee  Thank you, Chair. Total annual visitation for the 2021-2022 operating year, meaning April to March, is projected to come in at between 21.1 million and 21.5 million, which would be an improvement over the last year, although it's still lower than historical values. We have been

Environment committee  Well, Mr. Chair, I would be reluctant to comment about the parliamentary precinct in general, because I'm not involved with that. However, as an analogy of not knowing what you're dealing with until you get in behind a wall or into the plumbing or underground, particularly with a

Environment committee  I would like to pass the floor to Darlene Upton. She is our relevant VP who is leading the charge on our work on urban parks.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. If I could reveal a bit of an agenda in calling upon Ms. Upton to answer that question, I wonder if I might acknowledge that Darlene has, as of yesterday, completed 25 consecutive years of service to the Parks Canada agency.

Environment committee  She's a remarkable leader who has made a remarkable contribution to Canada, and we thank her for everything she has done.

Environment committee  I think I heard you say that was for Parks. I'll do my best. I won't speak for Natural Resources, but I will say Parks Canada very much agrees with and works with our federal partners to the end that natural climate solutions such as planting trees, restoring grasslands and wetl

Environment committee  Chair, I may turn to Darlene Upton, our vice-president of protected areas establishment and conservation, if time permits, but I would say this by way of introduction. In terms of indigenous peoples, the majority of our national parks created in modern times have been done as a r

Environment committee  I will limit my comments, Chair, to the federal lands that Parks Canada stewards in partnership with our indigenous communities. In terms of private land or provincial Crown land, I don't think it would be in my remit to speculate on those.

Environment committee  Certainly. Thank you, Chair. The other thing I would say, Chair, is that the reasons for the cost delays are often quite similar. As I mentioned with the campground example, a lot of these assets haven't been reviewed for many years because of fiscal constraints. More recently,