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OTTAWA — Protecting and conserving the natural environment is Parks Canada’s main job, the federal environment minister concludes in her response to a massive public consultation on the future of Canada’s national parks.

“I did feel there needed to be a reset button,” Catherine McKenna said Monday about her response to the Let’s Talk Parks consultation, held January 2017. “I thought it was really important to make that signal.”

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That response acknowledges that commercial developments — especially in the heavily pressured Rocky Mountain parks of Banff and Jasper — may have to be reviewed.

“Maintaining and restoring ecological integrity requires limits on development in national parks, particularly those where development can impact ecosystem health,” McKenna said in the report.

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She said an independent working group will be struck to examine Parks Canada’s practices and approval policies for development. That group is to report back by the end of August.