Windsor-West MP Brian Masse is applauding the land transfer from the Windsor Port Authority to Parks Canada but says it shouldn't have taken this long to get done.
The Windsor Port Authority announced Monday that Ojibway Shores land owned by the port had been transferred to Parks Canada for the creation of a National Urban Park. Three other parcels of Ojibway Shores still need to be transferred from Transport Canada to Parks Canada.
"It only takes two signatures between the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Minister of Transport and everything else has been a side-show for greed and that's really what it is at the end of the day," said Masse.
Masse says the port has been insistent on getting land in exchange for Ojibway Shores.
The vote on Masse's Bill C-248 to create the national urban park will be voted on and is expected to pass the third reading in mid-April. It will then go to the Senate stage.
Simultaneously, the Liberal government is proposing creating protections for a national urban park, outside of the Parks Canada's National Park legislation.
Masse said he'd like to see the park established before the Gordie Howe International Bridge opens so protections are in place before traffic increases.
