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John Aldag

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Liberal
  • Cloverdale—Langley City
  • British Columbia
  • Voting Attendance: 68%
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Context: House Hansard - 140 - Dec/2/22
Mr. John Aldag
  • Dec/2/22 10:29:48 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-23 
Madam Speaker, there are a couple of pieces to that very important question that I would like to discuss. One of them is that this would give protections, once and for all, to federally owned national historic sites. Things like viewscapes are part of the essence of a historic place. Those would be protected and there would be consequences that could be enforced that, in many cases now, do not exist. For the types of damage and destruction that were referenced by the member, there are no penalties right now, or there are penalties that are difficult to enforce for those types of actions. That is where this legislation is so important. For non-federally owned sites, there are still no protections. That is something that will need to be looked at in the future so that many of the third party owned national historic sites will eventually get support. However, for now, the focus is on federally owned national historic sites.
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