Thank you all for being here today.
I'm glad that Will and Bob have picked up on the rural side of it. I have a very rural riding and I am fortunate enough to have a number of historical sites in my riding. It's a competition of resources to maintain these sites that really hurts our rural ridings, because the wealth and the lobbying capacity are in the large urban centres, and even the resources to be able to put toward applications and the like are in large urban ridings.
I'm deeply concerned that a lot of the rural ridings get overlooked. I have a town hall in my riding that is of a Greek revival style, which is unique in a rural riding and especially in southern Ontario, and in Ontario, period. It's the centre of town, so when we're talking about rebuilding rural communities, rebuilding Main Street, a lot of these buildings are the centrepiece of the town. Therefore, if they don't receive that upkeep, then they also become the disintegrating part of rebuilding Main Street.
Part of my concern is about cost-sharing and around tax incentives that once again the wealthier centres have financial resources to bring to bear on, so they act as a magnet to draw those resources even further away from rural communities.
I think Joëlle would be the best to answer this. Is there a focus in Parks Canada specifically on rural areas? Is there a designated kind of commitment to the rural side of it, so that the urban side doesn't dominate when it comes to funding?