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Thank you for providing leadership on issues like this and rallying nature lovers to raise our voice to public officials. Your membership of naturalists across Ontario could be a major force for nature because they know the value of what needs protected and hold a deep desire to do so.
I write articles on energy and environment and water conservation for Harrowsmith Magazine as well as my own blog for the Quinte Region: http://www.quintegreentrail.com which has a link to Facebook.
Here is what I added to your form letter to the minister.
Our province is at a point where more people are using the parks and venturing into wild areas, yet our parks and preserves are limited and even shrinking. With an eye to the future we must not only stop the loss and urbanization of parks, but expand them by purchasing adjacent undeveloped properties and creating new wildland preserves before cottage and recreational development raises the price.