Rouge National Urban Park

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is expected today to stop a study of the Rouge National Urban Park that was launched after Ontario Premier Doug Ford opened nearby protected lands to development.

The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada has announced funding to aid public participation in its assessment of Ontario's plan to open up protected Greenbelt lands near a national urban park for development.

Stretching from the Don River in downtown Toronto to Rouge National Urban Park, the second expansion phase of an urban linear park called Meadoway is about to begin.

The federal government says it's beefing up the ecological protection of a newly created national urban park in Toronto while allowing farms in the park longer term leases of up to 30 years.