National Urban Park status
for Technoparc ecosystem!

Green Coalition congratulates Julie Dabrusin, minister responsible for Parks Canada

December 11, 2025

On December 8, the Green Coalition Technoparc Team sent congratulations to the Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister responsible for Parks Canada … And, an appeal – National Urban Park status for the Technoparc ecosystem, as follows:

Montréal, December 8, 2025

Dear Minister Julie Dabrusin,

Green Coalition’s Technoparc Team wishes to congratulate you for taking on the oversight of the Parks Canada Agency. It is now a very important facet of your responsibilities as Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and we are encouraged that you are overseeing Parks Canada.

As you know from our letters to you on June 17 and October 14, 2025, the irreplaceable 230-hectare wetland ecosystem, known simply as the Technoparc, north of Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport, is a natural area that the whole community here wants to permanently conserve in its entirety. That environmental consensus for complete conservation includes the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke, the Montreal Metropolitan Community, the City of Montreal, the City of Dorval, the borough of Saint-Laurent, 25 local boroughs and municipalities, more than 200 scientists, along with the environmental groups Technoparc Oiseaux, Mères au front, and Green Coalition.

During the electoral campaign on April 7, 2025, the Liberal Party unveiled a “Nature Strategy” in which your government will create at least 10 new national parks and marine areas, as well as 15 new national urban parks. Then, at Saint-Eustache on April 15th, Prime Minister Carney stressed that this promise was both a new promise and his own commitment as well. That pledge was repeated again in the Throne Speech, presented by King Charles III on May 27th. This fall, before Parliament and in response to Green Party leader Elizabeth May during question period, the Prime Minister stressed that Canada’s Nature Strategy will be in accordance with the Kunming/Montreal targets set at COP 15. And he indicated that the Strategy itself will be made public in the coming weeks.

Prime Minister Carney also emphasized at Saint-Eustache that Montreal’s Technoparc ecosystem is under consideration for protection as a national urban park. So now, our Green Coalition Technoparc Team views the current political context as urgent for the Technoparc.

That is why we are asking you, Honourable Minister Dabrusin, and Cabinet to ensure that this unique wetland area will be conserved as a national urban park and as part of the Parks Canada network across Canada.

We write to you now because we feel that you and the Government can truly make a difference by making the Technoparc ecosystem a Canadian National Urban Park.

Yours sincerely,

Green Coalition Technoparc Team:
Clifford Lincoln, former Quebec environment minister
Sylvia Oljemark, founding president, Green Coalition
Charlie MacLeod and Carole Reed, co-presidents, Green Coalition
David Fletcher, cofounder, vice-president
Green Coalition
Patrick Barnard, Green Coalition, journalist

CC:
The Honourable Steven MacKinnon
Minister of Transport of Canada

Feature image: Green Heron – courtesy of Westmount Parc United Church

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