Updating Canada's Tentative List

 Updating Canada's Tentative List

 The Challenge

 The Approach

 The Result

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The Approach

The approach to updating Canada’s Tentative List included a few key elements:

• Face-to-face consultations, initially with the provinces and territories, key Aboriginal organizations and key national non-governmental organizations in the fields of cultural and natural heritage. These consultations provided an opportunity to raise awareness of the World Heritage process and criteria, elicit qualified nominations, ensure the accuracy of information, and obtain feedback regarding interests, capacities and priorities. This initial consultation used the independent experts’ reports as a basis for discussion.

• A Minister’s Advisory Committee met four times to review the two reports and the results of the consultations in order to identify the sites that, in its view, had the best potential to become World Heritage Sites.

• In some cases, more detailed consultations were necessary with stakeholders of the sites that were recommended by the Minister’s Advisory Committee, to ensure their support for including these sites on the revised Tentative List.

• Expert technical support from Parks Canada has been available throughout the process.