In August 2019 the Minister…

In August 2019 the Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks Jeff Yurek made a commitment to Chatham-Kent Mayor Darrin Canniff. Minister Yurek promised to sell all cottage lots to the Municipality of Chatham-Kent to be then transferred to the cottage owners. This promise was then ignored and ultimately disregarded by mid-level MECP / Ontario Parks bureaucrats, despite repeated promises by the Minister (and subsequent Minister) that this lot sale plan was "official government policy and irreversible". It is shocking that the clear direction of a Minister can be totally reversed by a mid-level Manager yet this appears to be how the Government of Ontario operates. I encourage Ontario Parks to right this wrong and proceed with the lot sale as originally promised to the Mayor and the cottage community.