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Jewel Cunningham

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 23, 2023
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Sure, I’ll jump in. We referenced the Rouge National Urban Park as an area in which through the housekeeping associated with this bill we have strengthened the infractions around pesticides or dumping. Those are the types of activities we are seeing in the urban context with our national urban park locations like the Rouge.

But as the minister has expressed, the best protection we can offer these lands is really under the Canada National Parks Act. It is where ecological integrity is first and foremost and where we have the strongest enforcement measures against things like illegal harvesting and those types of activities we do see.

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I will just add that the Parks Canada system plan is the basis under which we have divided the country into bioregions. They are about ecological and biodiversity. We strive to find representative examples in each of those bioregions. There is a set of criteria associated with that. As the minister has mentioned, there are other factors at play and certainly other pristine tracts of land that include Indigenous, partner-led protected lands as well.

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