Mr. Speaker, I just assumed Liberal members opposite would have some piercing questions for my colleague. I was waiting for them to rise but none of them did. My apologies for not jumping up and trying to be recognized ahead of the Liberals.
I have a national park in my own riding. One thing that is a big issue in Elk Island, the home of Elk Island National Park, is that local people actually started that park. They got it going, organized it and eventually made a golf course in it. They have had a ongoing fight with bureaucracy in Ottawa as to how the park should operate.
Ottawa sent them a message that they had to close the road through the park. A lot of seniors were involved in that park from the beginning. Some of them are unable now to ride bicycles. They are 85 years old, for heaven's sake, but they still like to take a ride through the park and enjoy it.
There are others with limited financial abilities who want to participate in the park they helped to build. Lo and behold in their senior years the very park they built is closed to them because they cannot afford to go there.
We have control. We have taxation. We have limitations on the way these people can use their parks. In my view there is too much control from distant Ottawa over parks that we want to enjoy, that we have developed, that really belong to the people. Suddenly parks have become an exclusive domain of the rich and the mighty and government bureaucrats. I would like my colleague to comment on that.