 All righty, I'm sure you guys have heard the news now, it's been all over the place about Marine Land officially lobbying to be up for sale. Now I can tell you it has been up for sale much longer than yesterday, it's been up for sale for nearly like since the beginning of the pandemic almost, it's been starting the procedures for being up for sale and I'm gonna discuss all of the news because this is super confusing to me, like really confusing. Now I do know exactly what they're lobbying for and I have dived extremely deep into exactly what this means and I'm gonna tell you it means really good things. So for those of you that don't know, Marine Land has lobbied to the Ontario government to put itself up for sale and has asked for some changes to its designated land for development. It's also asked for some tax breaks to invest in some rides and attractions for the tourist attraction. And it's also asking for aid in being up for sale, which is extremely confusing to me because I'm gonna be honest, like our sources for Marine Land are pretty like good, like we've been pretty accurate for a lot of things at Marine Land and from what I understood Marine Land had been sold and again what I'm about to say is 100% speculation especially now and especially take this with a grain of salt because it appears there could be some inaccuracy amongst this or there's just another option has been presented to me that it has still been sold but Marine Land is asking for these tax breaks and zoning changes of the land to help the new owners. So again pure speculation right here but our impression was that Kellogg's, 100 Kellogg's Lane, it's an entertainment family complex out in Hamilton, we're gonna be the new owners of Marine Land or at least they had made a bid to be the new owners of Marine Land. Again that is 100% just speculation but I was under the impression that they were gonna be the new owners and that had already gone through and we were supposed to hear some time in January so that was supposed to be the new year, it was supposed to be the announcement and now here we are hearing that Marine Land is lobbying to be up for sale in January and they're asking for tax breaks to invest in new attractions on the land and zoning changes to the land so that developments can be made attractions and all that on the land which was also interesting to me because I didn't know that they had zoning bylaws on their land that prevented them from building attractions which might make sense as to why they only build in certain areas. Now I don't know the zoning map and what it looks like of all of Marine Land that'd be super interesting so if any of you actually know how to get that or look for it let me know because I am super intrigued they do have a lot of wetlands as you can see actually right before you right now that wasn't even planned so that might be part of the problem as well but it does look like Marine Land has lobbied to change its development which has me thinking that there might even be some bigger players at play because if the 100 Kellogg's Lane was the buyer I can't see them investing the kind of investments that would need all of the land changed now there are two ways or two ways to look at this they could be rezoning some of the land for residential and condominiums and stuff like that because Cole's gonna hate me for saying this but there is no one that is gonna be able to buy a thousand acres in Niagara Falls on prime land and not be able to sell or not have to sell some of that land for development there like there's no one that can afford a thousand acres in Niagara Falls for a small-scale theme park no matter how you look at this this is a tiny essentially family-run theme park in Niagara Falls and it's run extremely poorly if I had to put that not the people working there just how it's run I there's so many things this part could have done to save its image and it really irks me I can make that in a whole separate video I'm actually so pissed off with Marie and her team like it just really ticks me off that they're just sitting there allowing their image to be torn to shreds and they're just not even like showcasing some of the things we do we know a lot of people that actually work at Marine Land as marine biologists and work with the animals and there is a lot of good that they do do now there are obviously some things I strongly disagree with like the bear exhibit can't stand it I think it's horrible but I can tell you the whale is extremely well taken care of and if you were to go back three years and look at videos of the whale and watch videos of the whale now there is a significant difference in its behavior so I just want to put that out there like as someone who knows some of the people who work directly with this whale who literally have said they would not let Marine Land treat the whale badly and I strongly believe in those people like I've seen the toys I've seen the food I've seen the enrichment training and all that that they've been doing and this is new I will say this is new training and new almost like playtime in the last couple years so there is a difference and I'm not saying Marine Land has always treated their animals right or all of their animals right but there is a change and it has been benefiting but that aside I think this is really good news so if the Ontario government does respond to this which I'm not sure they're going to it was interesting because when the media had reached out to the Ontario government Association or whatever they want to call it they kind of said like they hadn't reached out to Marine Land or responded to Marine Land and it almost seemed kind of like snarky as if they had no interest in doing it so that could be a little difficulty as well and no matter how you look at it again coming back to the thousand acres and the fact that they do have animals it is going to be really hard to sell this property I don't know a theme park company that wants to come in knowing the image of Marine Land and take over the ownership of these animals you have Kiska who's extremely old you have a lot of the even Beluga whales which are too old to move as well or relocate so even if a theme park company or a company came in and wanted to buy it relocating these animals is almost impossible for a lot of the older generation of those animals they're too old to move it's too risky there's a lot of danger that could happen in even just the transport phase so you're almost stuck with these animals and that kind of sucks for the animals and the new theme park company that would want to operate it because I'm sure any theme park company that is interested in buying Marine Land wants nothing to do with the animals which is good news for both activists but unfortunately these animals can't be released into the wild I look at a lot of these activists posts and not the activists themselves I know they're a lot more educated and no better that you can't just simply pick up some of these elderly animals and move them and transport them for long periods of time it's extremely dangerous but I see a lot like just free them like if you threw Kiska in the ocean right now she would not survive the only thing option for Kiska is to go to a pen like a rehabilitation pen or something like that I don't know too much about that so again don't come for me I understand your side of the argument but the transport phase that would be dangerous for Kiska as well now the land animals I'd like to see them all go there's a lot I'd like to see happen at Marine Land and hopefully it does again some of the plans we had heard through the rumor mill where the land animals were going to be the first to be kind of like gotten out of there and then obviously they can't get rid of the marine animals it's too dangerous for a lot of them so they were just going to start a lot of like working with some universities and stuff like that for training and education so those are some of the things that I think would help the park but you're gonna like with those tax breaks let's say someone does buy Marine land and they are given those tax breaks by the government and the zoning changes that's gonna be really good news you could see like a really big player coming in and making some really big investments on this massive plot of land in a really prime location again if you built some hotels a water park a good coaster even some good family rides with some good theming you're gonna draw people in like Niagara Falls is busy any holiday it's busy so having something owning this location would be prime for anyone so I can't see why people aren't interested in it I just think the thousand acres and the animals are a big play in why marine lands having some trouble anyways that's my thoughts right now I'll continue to inform you guys of anything I know I again I am just as shocked as you that what's happening is happening we should have known the new owners by now so hopefully we are right and it is who we thought but we'll have to see anyways thanks so much for watching guys hopefully this helped explain anything about those tax breaks and the land zoning changes again will fill you guys in as we know more we are reaching out to anyone we know even local businesses I've reached out to a specific attraction there that might know so I'll let you guys know what I know have a good one guys bye