Parks Canada should immediately purchase the 20 provincial parks that Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is closing or partly closing. Otherwise, foreign billionaires will acqire this land. I would not be surprised if movie producer George Lucas buys Dinosaur Provincial Park to create his own Jurassic Park. George Lucas and the Walt Disney Corporation acquired Presidio Military Base land from the American government.
House of Commons Debates Ottawa March 19, 1998.
(Note: Changes to the National Parks Act would give foreign entities the power to control and operate properties such as Waterton; Banff; Jasper; Revelstoke; and Yoho national parks):
Mr. Ghislain Lebel, Chambly. BQ.
"Madame Speaker, I congratulate the member for Beausejour-Petitcodiac on a very caring speech. Knowing that there are many (poor) children in the Montreal area, I wonder whether they will ever be able to set foot in a national park, given the new parks policy...Could it be that once a given area has been shown to be profitable the minister will bring in an agency specializing in entertainment, or a huge company such as Walt Disney. The agency will then become responsible for the administration of the Banff National Park, for example, in return for a small fee and will be free to charge whatever prices it wants and to go after it's usual clientele, namely the rich, the upper crust, while the poor, for whom national parks were created in the first place, will no longer have access to them...We are standing on a slippery slope."
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Mr. Rick Laliberte, New Democratic Party March 19, 1998.
"Once you put a big bow tie on an agency such as Walt Disney, it could take over the administration of the parks and make it a truly business-like plan operating at arm's length. The government says we can raise the issue with the Minister every two years for a review."
An amusement park in Montreal called La Ronde is now owned by an American multinational corporation.. La Ronde was built for Expo.
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