Manitoba will expropriate Lemay Forest to turn into provincial park, premier says

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 14, 2025 2:09 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

The Manitoba authorities says it plans to expropriate a privately-owned parcel of onshore successful southbound Winnipeg astatine hazard of being deforested by a developer, and crook it into a provincial park.

Premier Wab Kinew made the announcement astir the Lemay Forest astatine an unrelated quality league astatine the Manitoba Legislative Building connected Monday.

"I privation the chainsaws to stop," helium told reporters.

"There's a clump of paperwork that's going to happen, but I'm communicating this publically present conscionable truthful that radical perceive the message. And hopefully there's nary trees getting chopped down, and radical are conscionable reassured that we're going to crook this country into a provincial park."

A radical warring to forestall trees from being chopped down successful the country said precocious it was connected precocious alert aft learning a Manitoba Crown authoritative was not readying to determination guardant a backstage prosecution that had been preventing the developer from deforesting the area.