Thank you very much, Ms. Collins. I appreciate it.
When I was on city council, we had a provincial park called Peche Island. It's in the middle of the Detroit River. It has an ecosystem. They used to say that the rum-runners were there. The remnants are there, as well as all kinds of folklore and so forth. There is actually a little bit of infrastructure on it.
That provincial park was put up for sale by the provincial government, including a woodlot on part of the shore. We had to purchase that land or it would have been lost to Americans or to developers. It was up for sale, so at that time the city council bought the provincial park for $1.3 million. The only way to pay for that, in terms of getting support to do it, was that we actually had to develop the woodlot—which had been used for camping and kids programs—to be a subdivision.
One thing that I want to see—and what I've been told and coached on with regard to the non-government organizations that are involved in the environmental movement—is what they view as the consistency and solidity of a project or a plan. The normal process to create a park is to actually amend the parks act and include it in there.
That's why we want this to be the regular process right now. It's ready. It's perfectly set to be the structure to be advanced in the future. It doesn't involve any type of barrier, aside from the legislation needing to be passed and a proper management plan.