Environment committee  Thank you for the question. The vision really is to connect Ojibway to the last piece that's missing right now onto the Detroit River. From our perspective, from the city's perspective, we have an opportunity to create something that's going to make not only Windsorites but all

Environment committee  Sure.

Environment committee  It's because everything has opened up to a policy that's based on negotiation, and there's no concrete—

Environment committee  But there's also legislation involved. If we allow legislation to be involved, it eliminates all that ambiguity. It eliminates all that potential negotiation, not knowing the process, and what it would look like moving forward.

Environment committee  But that also included legislation, right? Moving forward with Bill C-248 removes all that ambiguity, and it moves us forward to where we all want to go without any ambiguity. Everyone knows what's going on, how it's going to play out and what it will look like for decades to com

Environment committee  Once it moves under Parks Canada, everyone knows that emblem and everyone knows that logo. We know what that entails moving forward. We know it locally with Point Pelee. Our fear is, again, that having essentially the status quo, it would just be called a national urban park. Mov

Environment committee  I don't know what that process entails. I don't know what the end outcome could be. With legislation, I do.

Environment committee  Yes. The City of Windsor supports Bill C-248 because we understand what that entails, and we believe it's more concrete. Our fear and our concern is that the City of Windsor will receive a national urban park in name and name only, and nothing much will change. You'll still have

Environment committee  It's because we don't know what the process is and what it entails. We can say, “Put the cart before the horse”, but our fear is that we're going to get a cart and no horse, or a horse and no cart. As I said, our fear, from the City of Windsor's perspective, is that it's going t

Environment committee  I do, and that's a great point. As you all know, Windsor hosts the busiest border crossing in all of North America. With the Gordie Howe International Bridge set to come online, that traffic and that intensity is going to increase. The city supports Bill C-248 because it allows

Environment committee  Absolutely. Obviously, protecting the environment is a concern for all of us. Hosting that busiest border crossing in all of North America does provide stress on our ecosystem. Anything we can do to safeguard against that and put the resources in place to battle it is something w

Environment committee  With the competition itself, no. I would assume that would be up to city administration and their committee with Parks Canada. As I said before, the Windsor City Council has passed unanimous support for this legislation. You'd have a willing partner in the City of Windsor. I don'

Environment committee  It's both at the same time.

Environment committee  I'll just jump in, then, and answer it very quickly. I respect the question, and you're right. However, from the City of Windsor perspective, the more rapid approach is more favourable, more concrete. It allows us to move forward quickly and to know what we are getting into. Fo

Environment committee  Yes, I'm confident that we're able to move forward. Yes.