Do not privatize Canada's National Parks.

House of Commons Debates    Ottawa     March 19, 1998
Canada Parks Agency Act,
Mr. Rick Laliberte (Churchill River, Saskatchewan, NDP):
     "(The Canada Parks Agency Act) is a capitalist form of commercialization of our national parks and eventual privatization... where the hon. members take their children, pay at the toll gate to lift the Stornoway gates up, enter Walt Disney national park and come out and negotiate the price with the minister."
An hon. member:
     "The people will be the custodians, not private enterprise."
Mr. Nelson Riis (Kamloops, B.C. NDP).
     "...Members can probably tell that I do not support Bill C-29 at this point...This bill involves a great deal of Canada;
31 national parks, 786 historical sites, a number of historical canal systems, 661 sites that are managed by third parties that are ecologically or environmentally significant, 165 heritage railroad stations, 31 heritage river systems and others...If someone is a wealthy person or from a high income family and someone tells them that in order to use the parks they will have to pay $10 dollars to canoe down the river, $20 per night for firewood and $50 to park a tent for a day or two, it is no big deal. However, if we pass this legislation we are going to put access to Canada's national parks out of the reach of many, many Canadians...Increasingly we will be turning the parks into some kind of quasi-business operation. That is not what Canada is all about."
Mr. Howard Hilstrom (Selkirk-Interlake, Manitoba, Ref.)
     "Mr. Speaker, I am quite interested in the financial aspects of this bill. Is there a possibility of foreign interests getting involved in our parks system?"
Mr. Nelson Riis:
     "Obviously the answer is yes...We lack a national park policy that makes any sense just as we lack a national waterways policy or a national highway policy."
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The Rideau Canal is a national waterway. It is possible that the Rideau Canal could be sold to the Walt Disney Corporation. Steamboats would then navigate the waters:

The Disney Corporation was given the licence to market the RCMP image.
Winnie the Pooh was a black bear cub from White River, Ontario:

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The Canadian National Parks Act  S.C. 2000, c.32
Clause 4 (1)
The National Parks of Canada are hereby dedicated to the people of Canada for their benefit, education and enjoyment, subject to this Act and the regulations, and the parks shall be maintained and made use of so as to leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future Canadians.
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The following landscapes are designated as National Interest Land Mass properties, and they will never be redeveloped for mass residential, commercial and institutional purposes.And they will never be privatized. Small farms, and federal museums, libraries and research institutions are acceptable.
1.)  Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa.
2.)  Greenbelt Research Farm, 1740 Woodroffe Avenue.
3.)  Gatineau Park.
4.)  The Greenbelt - approximately 14,000 ha, in 1988.
5.)  Pts of Wellington in front of Chateau Laurier and Conference Centre and land to the E of the Conference Centre; also lands N of Wellington between the Rideau Canal locks & Major Hill Park. Also, the approach to the Alexandra Bridge & the new Art Gallery site.
6.)  Lady Grey Drive and the Ottawa River W of Sussex Drive (behind the Royal Canadian Mint.)
7.)  Rideau Canal lands from downtown to Hog's Back Rd.
8.)  8 Parcels of land E of Sussex (Mile of History) from Rideau Street to MacDonald Cartier Bridge.
9.)  Pt of the Mint property W of Sussex Drive.
10.) 4 parcels on Rideau River around City Hall. (The Ottawa City Hall is now the John George Diefenbaker Federal Building.)
11.)  2 Parcels W of Sussex Drive N of MacDonald Cartier Bridge, parking lot at Earnscliffe to waterlot.
12.)  LeBreton Flats.
(Google: "1988-09-15-TB-re-NCC".)