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I'm writing to express my unequivocal opposition to the Ontario Government's proposed amendments to the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act and the Town of Wasaga Beach’s so-called Tourism Enhancement Proposal.

These plans represent a direct threat to our shared natural heritage.

Provincial Parks are not commodities to be sold or handed over to private interests. They are public assets, essential for recreation, biodiversity conservation, and climate resilience. Weakening their protection contradicts Canada’s commitment to conserve 30 percent of nature by 2030. It puts endangered species at greater risk, undermines climate goals, and robs future generations of the right to enjoy these landscapes.

Wasaga Beach is already Ontario’s most visited Provincial Park, attracting people who come for its natural beauty, sandy beaches, dunes, wetlands, and outdoor recreation. Selling off parts of this protected area for private development will not improve tourism. It will reduce public access, increase congestion, damage local ecosystems, and diminish the very qualities that draw people to Wasaga in the first place.

This plan is not about enhancement. It is about erasing what makes Wasaga Beach special.

I do not support the proposed legislative changes or the development proposal in Wasaga Beach. I urge you to keep Ontario’s Provincial Parks fully public, fully protected, and off limits to privatization, now and forever.