This is not what is supposed to happen! Mrs Peter Bradshaw on a recent hike through the Rouge saw ducks being hunted during the beginning of the current spring nesting season.
This is one of the important reasons the new Rouge National Urban Park needs the protection that Parks Canada will bring!
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A letter to the Toronto Star Editor from retired Parks Canada CAO, Celine Gaulin, Friday, March 20/15…
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Tagged National Parks
An interesting article in the Saturday, Mar 21/15 Globe & Mail…
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To keep up with Parks Canada activities in the new Rouge National Urban Park check out their web site http://www.pc.gc.ca
Take a look at the draft Park plan available on that site…
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Speach Rouge Senate Parks Canada
Speech by Alan Latourelle to the Parliamentary committee of the Canadian Senate considering Bill C-40, a bill to create ROUGE NATIONAL URBAN PARK, Canada’s 1st urban park, containing historic archeology, class 1 farmland, salmon spawning streams, wilderness in the city, wildlife, marsh and a whole lot more…
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Rouge National Urban Park transitions quickly from Winter to Spring- March 18/15,
Toronto/Markham, Ontario
The York Region Federation of Agriculture is critical of the Ontario Provincial Government and wants that government to transfer the previously-agreed upon lands belonging to the Province to the Federal Government and Parks Canada without delay…
The Federation further states it is disappointed with the Ontario government in this regard and wants the government to support the Park without amendments to Bill C-40.
There are 7500 acres of Class 1 farmland within the eventual boundaries of Rouge National Urban Park that the Federation wants protected as per the plans put forward by Parks Canada.
The Senate of Canada hearings on Bill C-40 (the Act to create the Park) have concluded and it is hoped third reading of the bill in the Senate can take place within the next few weeks.
The orderly transfer of the Province’s lands without any new conditions would basically complete the package and allow Parks Canada to continue to plan for a dynamic Urban Park with a significant agricultural component.
For more information on the York Region Federation of Agriculture’s position contact: york@ofa.on.ca
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MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT respecting the establishment of the proposed Rouge National Urban Park, January 26, 2013
The is the agreement to provide for the orderly transfer of lands to the new park Fed Prov MOA Final 26 January 2013-1
A small group calling themselves Friends of the Rouge National Urban Park have re-constituted themselves as a group to help along the continued establishment and operation of ROUGE NATIONAL URBAN PARK as it was envisioned and agreed to be by the City of Toronto, City of Markham, the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada, several community groups and many individuals. Third reading in Parliament of Bill C-60, a bill to establish the park, passed in the House of Commons earlier in 2015. The Bill has passed the Senate. And the Prime Minister of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, announced in July 2015 of an additional large tract of federally-owned lands to be transferred to the Park, all of which is now being managed by Parks Canada from their offices in the Rouge.
The Hon. Pauline Browes, the Hon.Peter Kent, the Hon. Michael Chong, all former national Canadian Cabinet Ministers with an environmental bent, along with Alan Wells, former Rouge Park Alliance Chair, Councillors, Glenn DeBaermaeker, Ron Moeser and Corneliu Chisu, M.P. are leading a larger group of committed Rouge National Urban Park groups and individual supporters to see this project to its early completion.
One wrinkle in the project is the requirement for the Government of Ontario to turn over to Parks Canada those lands owned by the province and previously committed to this exciting project, but not yet turned over to the Park due to some unnecessary provincially-based political mis-manouverings!
The above-noted committee is now calling upon people to press this issue with the Ontario Provincial Government and its members so that proper planning, environmental management and public enjoyment might take place in an orderly way to make the most of this wonderful wild public national park in the midst of this largely populated urban centre.
There will be more and frequent information posted on this web site as we move along. So please join us when you can on these pages and send us your thoughts to help with this ‘bit of wild in the City’.
For more information contact:
–The Hon. Pauline Browes, former Minister of State for the Environment
browes@rogers.com
–Larry Noonan, environmental activist and hike leader
larrynoonan@rogers.com
Friends of Rouge National Urban Park 