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Conserve Heritage Resources

Follow-up Survey on Actions Taken to Address Poor Ratings of CI at Parks Canada Administered National Historic Sites

Each national historic site with poor ratings on one or more elements of CI is surveyed three-years after the last commemorative integrity evaluation to determine if they have developed and implemented strategies to address deficiencies. A template including the summary table from the CI evaluation questionnaire for any element that received an overall poor rating and the relevant section from the Executive Summary of the CI evaluation, which identified the specific challenge(s) for the site, is provided. Managers are requested to identify specific actions taken over the last three years (completed and ongoing), action identified in their Field Unit Business Plan for the short term (1-2 years) and to provide an opinion on whether the problem(s) that led to the overall poor rating were completely resolved, partially resolved, or not resolved. The surveys are not formal re-evaluations of the commemorative integrity elements of a site. Results of the surveys over the last three years are shown in Table 17.

Table 17: Status of Actions Taken to Address Poor Ratings of CI

Parks Canada has achieved a 69% average over the past three years and, in the short term, will not meet the stated goal of 80% improvement. The result in 2006-2007 is worse than in previous years, though this may simply be a result of the small sample size.

Although there has been some movement on this planned result, there have been challenges. The new asset funding secured by the Agency in 2005 was initially allocated to urgent health and safety projects and, that coupled with the “ramping-up” of the funding over a number of years has meant that the needed investments in the re-capitalization of cultural assets has yet to be made but is planned in the LTCP of the Agency.

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