I have been rudely informed…

I have been rudely informed that the Ontario government is proposing to sell key parts of Ontario’s second most-visited Provincial Park (2023 data) for a development scheme. I find this deeply troubling that a government wants to privatize public lands for the sake of profit. I have been visiting this area every summer before I could remember. If it was private, I would not have been able to do so and my summers would have been drastically different. The area on the chopping block includes roughly 60% of the Park’s celebrated Georgian Bay shoreline lands and critical habitat of the endangered piping plover. These sensitive areas rely on the Provincial Park’s protections to safely coexist with beachgoers and other recreational users and would not be preserved if the land were developed.

Your government keeps hacking away at our province's public green spaces and soon there will be nothing left. That will be a sad day when nothing is left at all. No one but the rich will be able to enjoy it but that was the plan all along, right? You're stealing summer memories from future generations and that is despicable.

We all know that the valuable beachfront land on Georgian Bay are worth millions of developer dollars. But they are owned by the people of Ontario and should be kept that way. Hands of Wasaga Beach!