Removing more than 40% of…

Removing more than 40% of protected park lands and turning it over to be sold, developed, and destroyed does not align with Canada's goal of ensuring 30% of environmentally important canadian land is protected.

Further, development of important wetlands always leads to flooding and disaster, in the immediate vicinity and downstream. The beach area and dunes are critical in protecting the town and buildings from huge georgian bay storms. The water and wind from these storms has to go somewhere, and it will be in whatever parking lot or buildings that end up being built on those areas. In ontario, we need to respect and protect wetlands.

The protected park space is critical habitat for endangered species, like the piping plover, and development of half of this beach space will irrevocably damage these populations, let alone the diverse and complicated ecosystems on the beach and in the water.

Lastly, if the point is to increase tourism, (and wasaga beach is already one of the most visited parks in Ontario) what are people going to wasaga for if not the beach?? How does removing protected park land and beach area = more people? Are people not going to be frustrated by lack of beach space to vacation at, at over crowding, and then stop going to wasaga?

This proposal doesn't make any sense, and would cost the environment and people living in wasaga far more than it would benefit them.

Don't do it. We need to protect our park lands at all costs.