Thank you all for coming. I appreciate that. I'm happy the member for Scarborough—Guildwood spent the day with the farmers in the area. These are the same farmers who have been farming the land for 200 years, but he spent a day there so he has become professional on what they like. I thank him for spending that one day.
Speaking of friends of the Rouge, let's talk about Friends of the Rouge. The member for Scarborough—Guildwood, I believe the member for Scarborough Southwest, the member for Markham—Unionville, and the member for Etobicoke North submitted petitions from the Friends of the Rouge to the House. As we know the Friends of the Rouge plant thousands of trees in the park each year. They said that this plan ignores the ecological vision and policies of the former cooperatively run Rouge Park including a 600-metre wide forested main ecological corridor.
The Liberal member for Scarborough—Guildwood and two other Liberal members of Parliament and the member for Scarborough Southwest submitted petitions to Parliament calling for this 600-metre corridor to be enacted. We've heard that will take thousands of acres of class 1 farmland out of production. We know that will mean the eviction of farmers despite the fact they are trying to now back up and say that no, they don't want to evict farmers. We know that's what the result of that will be. I would suggest to you that's why farmers don't actually trust what they are saying. This is why farmers don't trust what the provincial government is doing, because the other parties to this in our House of Commons actually support and have submitted petitions to that end.
That's more of a comment than a question.
Is there mining in the park? I want to ask this. Is there actually any mining in the park?