To whom this may concern, …

To whom this may concern,

The proposed land transfer which would give the township of Wasaga beach the ownership of Beach areas 1 and 2 ( park land) is unnecessary and will be disaster from an environmental perspective.
The 14 km of beach belonging to Wasaga beach provincial park since the early 2000s is the foundation upon which the towns economy is built. There are no big industries in Wasaga there are only small business (with some exception I.e. Walmart) and these small businesses rely upon beach going tourists. The beach is for all, just as Ontario parks are for all. Giving this land to township of Wasaga is the best way to gentrify a small town. It’s the best way to line the pockets of township workers while bringing in big companies that will push out independent businesses. The township cannot be trusted to ensure that the beach remain an area where all feel welcome and safe because at every opportunity they tear down small business and replace them with condos and hotels. The town will not preserve the look and feel of Wasaga beach they will monetize the beach as best as they can. They will encourage the development of housing near the waterfront and they will bring in food and shops from big existing monopolizing companies which will price out locals and close down small independent business. The transfer will change the look and feel of Wasaga beach and this may kill tourism in town. Nobody comes to Wasaga beach to enjoy time in another mini GTA, they come here looking for a cheesy small town with a nice beach to escape the city. The township of Wasaga has already developed the town at every opportunity, cutting down tree everywhere and building shitty + ugly 15 minute cities and hotel. As a local, I have see how the development of the strip has killed tourism at Wasaga beach ( the number of beachgoers is pathetic this year and it is because they don’t want to go to the beach near a development zone. The transfer of beach ownership and the development that is likely to follow will kill tourism in the town for the next 5ish year and maybe permanently, if is ain’t broken don’t fix it.) They will make the beach a haven for big businesses and they will try to use the beach for profit even against the desire of locals . The provincial park has done a good job managing the beach, they are aware of the ecological impacts of their work and they always try to make locals and tourists happy through their beach management. They do not run the beach for profit, they take care of the beach and the beach goers alike. They see and take note of all customer complains and they try to respond with action to any complaints ( even when the province slashes their funding to make it appear like they are mismanaging the beachfront ( ur not slick Doug ford)). The park has saved many local teenagers and young adult from unemployment ( thanks liberals for mass migration and the suppression of wages using TFW). The park also does one of the most important things: it manages invasive species, it looks after rare ecosystem and protects endangered species (fuck you Doug ford for overturning bill 5). It’s hard to explain why these things are so important in a world where humans only care about their own well being. We as human have already taken over huge portions of Canadian land killing any species that stands in our way but it’s important to remember that all species have an equal right to exist on the land of their ancestors. We human are blessed with a hyper-developed frontal cortex which allows us to have critical thought but instead of using this to help out our planet we use our adaptations to kill everything in our way. Knowing this, we owe it to endanger species like the piping Plover to protect their habitats and what is left of their population because we humans have raked almost every beach with viable PIPL habitat thus almost pushing them to extinction. The park has spent countless hours and thousands of dollars towards saving the species and they have done and incredible job despite all the bitching and whining about ~2 km of un-wreaked beach ( which is litter picked often anyways). So much work has gone into saving the species and it has helped the overall PIPL population. It would be a shame to waste all those conservation efforts only to hand over the land to a township that will rake over their habitat at the first opportunity it get thus removing one of the most important PIPL habitats. Please save the PIPL by leaving beach area 1 and 2 for the park and telling the township to stick to watering planters, dusting the roads at inconvenient times and managing their 2 pathetic bus routes. How about u work on providing decent transit for the town of wasaga and telling your township employees to stop driving 20km over the speed limit around town instead of begging for conservation areas to mismanage as well.

This is a very long text that only touches the surface of why beach area 1 + 2 should be left in the hands of the provincial park. I haven’t mentioned how they have no systems in place to take care of missing peoples on the beach( the park has a fast and effective team of enforcement that know how to and have experience dealing with emergencies). I haven’t mentioned their lack of integrity like setting up a wall of posters in town with captions written by AI ( full of misinformation), stealing images and ideas from the provincial park social media and using it on their own social media with no credit given. I haven’t mentioned that they don’t provide their employees with proper training and many receive no training of any kind before working ( the park makes all employees go through at least 20+ hours of training before the season starts ( every employee knows what to do in case of all emergencies, can the town employees do the same with their 1-2 hours of job specific training). I haven’t really mentioned how their action shows that they don’t care about the environment, while the park employees are busy panting pollinator gardens and removing invasives like phrases or Lyme grass; the town is busy planting ugly raises beds full of non native flower and letting ditches become overrun with phragmites. The list could go on forever but It would take me a decade to explain why the township of Wasaga beach should never be allowed to take ownership of this historical Canadian land. The land belong to the people and to species like the Piping plover not to a power hungry townships. Very few people have ever critiqued park management because they have done an effective job managing the beach and taking care of the endangered species on our shore. But the transfer of places like Allenwood beach has shown that people are not more happy with township management because they are complaining just as much if not more. Wasaga beach is not broken and it has been managed well by Ontario parks so do not risk ruining this historic beach by transferring it to the money hungry township. Also, save the Piping Plover, there is no reason why the USA should be better at preserving this species than Canada is, despite our claims of being the better country in terms of environmental preservation.