The purpose of the
message is to invite you a first meeting concerning 1) the Coalition on the
modification of the federal legislative framework for navigation on our
waterways and 2) boats having significant environmental impacts as is the case
with wakeboats. This meeting will take
place at 10:00AM, September 1st at the Parc Écotouristique, Collège Vanier,
à 737, rue de la Pisciculture,
St-Faustin-Lac Carré (the former fish hatchery site).
In brief, the
Coalition's objective is to form an inter-municipal, inter-regional and
inter-provincial group to develop innovative legislative recommendations
between now and the next federal election in 2015. These recommendations would modify the
Canadian Shipping Act and the Fisheries Act and link the two Acts in such a way
that, in the name of protection the marine habitat, it would be possible to
impose restrictions on the use of certain types of boats.
This approach is based
on the following:
1) The Canadian
Shipping Act in its present form is inefficient and ineffective for regulating
certain types of boating activity based environmental reasons since a) the
primary purpose of the Act is to protect navigation rights and b) it takes up
to 5 years from the moment a municipality makes a request for a new regulation
and the approval of the regulation, plus a trail voluntary code of conduct must
be attempted during the 5 year period;
2) The current
government has removed the component of The Fisheries Act that protects the
marine habitat;
3) Given the
environmental policies of the current government, it is best to adopt a time
line for targeting the next federal government in 2015;
4) A small
municipality, community on its own, cannot hope to get the attention of the
Government of Canada to modify legislation, especially when the modifications
include the linking of two Acts.
Accordingly, the inter-municipal, inter-regional and inter-provincial
approach is proposed as it would be difficult to ignore such a group. To this end, the Coalition will be targeting
other communities and stakeholders in Quebec as well as in other provinces.
Your comments and
expressions of interests are most welcome.Here is the links to the signatures document. http://willdubitsky.blogspot.ca/2013/08/coalition-wakeboats-petition-signatures.html
Please confirm your
presence by e-mail by August 27th.
Regards.
Will Dubitsky Rémi
Cloutier
willdubitsky@yahoo.ca remipcloutier@msn.com
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