[URBAN NOTE] "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paddles the Rouge in Scarborough"

[rfmcdonald]

The Scarborough River reports on the visit of the prime minister and his family to the Rouge Park. I really do have to go see it. (Also, I'm sure his unspoken invocation of the image of his father the canoeist is at least partly intentional.)

"You elected a paddler as your prime minister."

Justin Trudeau stood in Scarborough's Rouge Park, just before canoes were to hit the water in the third-annual Paddle the Rouge fundraiser, and praised his government's recent move to protect the park.

"It's pretty amazing, It's something that needs protecting," he said.

"We introduced legislation to the Rouge National Urban Park act, changes that will see ecological integrity as the top priority" for the park, Trudeau said.

He was referring to his Liberal government's rewriting of the law governing the park, announced last week by federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna.