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Under the pressure of climate change, our planet is changing. The urgency to act is no longer theoretical, but necessary. The well-being of current and future generations, especially that of our children, depends on our ability and willingness to act.

Despite the need to act, it is sometimes difficult to make the right choices, to change our habits and to do the right thing. Yet, that is exactly what we did when we created the Great Western Park (Grand parc de l’Ouest).

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While previous administrations had chosen to transform natural areas and wetlands in Pierrefonds-Ouest into a real estate development, we decided to take the side of nature and to look to the future. Rather than standing idly by and approving the construction of 5,500 new housing units on territories with rich biodiversity, we decided to create a huge urban park of 3,000 hectares that will become the largest municipal park in Canada.