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Senate Committee

Government Response to the Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans entitled: Seeing the Light: Report on Staffed Lighthouses in Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia

Posted Sun, 2012-03-18 14:25
Date Published: 
2012-03-16
Source: 
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

The Honourable Fabian Manning
Chair, Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans
Senate of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6

Dear Senator Manning,

I would like to thank the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans for its report Seeing the Light: Report on Staffed Lighthouses in Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia.

Lightkeepers necessary

Posted Thu, 2011-01-06 20:32
Date Published: 
2011-01-06
Source: 
North Island Gazette: Campbell River, BC

The Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans has recommended the government continue to staff lighthouses for the time being.

The Senate committee was tasked with reporting on Coast Guard plans to de-staff 50 lightstations. Twenty-seven of those stations are on the Pacific coast.

Now it is up to Gail Shea, the minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, DFO, and the federal cabinet to decide what to do next.

Senate Lighthouse Committee to visit BC

Posted Fri, 2010-11-05 08:30
Date Published: 
2010-11-05
Source: 
Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans

LIGHTHOUSE STUDY TAKES SENATORS TO BRITISH COLUMBIA

OTTAWA (November 5, 2010) - Members of the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans will visit British Columbia the week of November 16 – November 20, 2010 as part of the committee’s ongoing study on Canadian lighthouses. During fact-finding activities, senators intend to meet with regional representatives and local residents whose lives and livelihoods are impacted by lighthouse operations from marine safety, heritage preservation and tourism perspectives. Senators will visit representative lighthouses in various coastal areas.

Lighthouse study takes senators to Nfld and BC .

Posted Mon, 2010-11-01 17:34
Date Published: 
2010-10-29
Source: 
Liberal Senate of Canada Forum www.liberalsenateforum.ca/

OTTAWA (October 29, 2010) - Members of the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans will visit Newfoundland and Labrador the week of November 1 – November 5, 2010 as part of the committee’s ongoing study on Canadian lighthouses. During fact-finding activities, senators intend to meet with regional representatives and local residents whose lives and livelihoods are impacted by lighthouse operations from marine safety, heritage preservation and tourism perspectives.

Lighthouse review committee won't visit B.C. coast

Posted Sun, 2010-07-18 21:09
Date Published: 
2010-07-13
Source: 
Nanaimo News Bulletin

The committee charged with reviewing a decision to destaff lighthouses won’t visit B.C.’s coast this fall as previously planned.

Bill Rompkey, chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, said the committee’s funding was denied.

“At this point in time, we do not have the money to travel,” said Rompkey.

The committee has submitted a second, reduced budget that Romkey hopes gets approval, but he doesn’t know when the that decision might occur.

Rompkey said it’s important to tour the coast before a decision about destaffing is made.

Lighthouse keeper upset visit cancelled

Posted Sun, 2010-07-18 21:07
Date Published: 
2010-07-16
Source: 
Nanaimo Daily News

Local lighthouse keepers are disappointed that members of a Senate standing committee reviewing services provided by Canada's manned lighthouses likely won't be visiting coastal B.C. this fall as planned.

Tony Greenall, the temporary lighthouse keeper on Nanaimo's Entrance Island, said the whole review process would be "pointless" unless committee members come to the West Coast's manned lighthouse locations to see first-hand the important role lighthouse keepers play.

Future of B.C.'s scenic lighthouses is uncertain

Posted Sun, 2010-06-13 21:16
Date Published: 
2010-06-10
Source: 
Robert LeBaron, Nanaimo Daily News

The possibility that up to 1,000 Canadian lighthouses could soon be up for private sale by Ottawa is seen as federal "muscle-flexing" by Vancouver Island's lighthouse keepers.

Under the Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act that came into force on May 29, private sector buyers can apply to purchase lighthouses deemed surplus by the federal government.