Northern Parks Establishment Division

The waters in the County of Haliburton excepting Algonquin Provincial Park as described in Division 13; in the District Municipality of Muskoka excepting the Severn River system and excepting waters described in Division 16; in the Territorial District of Parry Sound, excepting Lake Nipissing as described in Division 27 and excepting the waters described in Division 16; in the Territorial District of Manitoulin excepting the waters of Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, the North Channel and Manitoulin Island as described in divisions 2, 16, 17 and 28, respectively; in the geographic Township of Spragge, in the Territorial District of Algoma, ...[+++]south of a line described as follows:

In my beautiful province of British Columbia, in my riding of Newton—North Delta, in Surrey and North Delta, my constituents tell me over and over again that they are feeling betrayed because the government did not deliver the additional policing it promised.

On this front, the effort made on the idea of introducing an intermediate category of regions is particularly important, above all, because in a number of cases, the years of recession that we are emerging from have intensified internal divisions, further increasing the importance of effective and adequate support for less developed regions in Europe, combating wastage and bringing development policy sharply into focus.

Suggestions were made by some witnesses that in order to accommodate the interests and concerns of communities in the north, northern National Parks might be better served if they were operated by a separate agency or at least an independent branch in the Parks Canada Agency that would be free to adopt its own policies, rather than being directed by policies applied to southern parks.