Environment committee  Well, that would be one of the things that you will need to look at, I think, as the committee, and as the committee brings the report forward. It's that process, in fact, around the timing. If I can just use an example, if today there is any issue around title on the lands tha

Environment committee  It is the only national urban park in Canada administered by Parks Canada, yes.

Environment committee  Separately—

Environment committee  Yes, you can set up a principled approach, if that's what you're saying, to setting up legislation that in fact could exist for many urban national parks across the country and would be based on some of the principles that needed to be set up for the Rouge. The Rouge had some ver

Environment committee  Some portion of it will have some ownership. That's correct.

Environment committee  I'm going to try to use an example, because it's probably the easiest way. Under our regulations, ecological integrity is the number one priority of national parks in the country. As we start to look at, for instance, municipal infrastructure that would go through the park or b

Environment committee  No, that is not correct, in fact.

Environment committee  The management planning process, first of all, is not a binding process. Management plans are directional documents that we must, for every park and site in the country, have in place on a 10-year rotational basis. Those set out the direction, but they are non-binding. There is n

Environment committee  I'm sorry. No. That is not correct with management plans. They do not set that up.

Environment committee  We have heard an indigenous partner mention several times that it is very important to have a nation to nation partnership. That relationship is at the foundation of every park that has been created over the past 20 years.

Environment committee  In some cases in Quebec, such as for the creation of the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park, for example, we established a structure for enacting mirror legislation by the province and Canada. In those cases, this will create a very close partnership, including with indigenous com

Environment committee  Parks Canada is a global expert in this area because we often use overpasses and underpasses to create connectivity. Normally we have access to studies on the most used nature trails. We have to use two types of structure to ensure connectivity. One of the fundamental purposes o

Environment committee  That is the case across the country.

Environment committee  It is an interesting question. For example, in the Rouge National Urban Park, there are seven distinct groups who have land there. The Huron-Wendat Nation is part of it as well because it has history in that region. That is why it is better to bring the groups together and estab

Environment committee  I will speak just on a couple of fronts. Unequivocally, Parks Canada supports the creation of a national urban park in the Windsor area, so I don't want to mix those two things together. I will just deal with the land perspective and then maybe turn to Darlene to touch on a coupl