South Bruce Peninsula making final push for Sauble Beach shoreline [Video]

The Town of South Bruce Peninsula is making one final push to try and win back the shoreline of Sauble Beach.

“It’s frustrating that it has to be done this way. It would be nice if we could sit down in a room and hack out these issues, but we have to involve the federal government with this survey. So, until that’s done, we still have to keep playing our cards, doing the right thing for the taxpayers, and Sauble Beach,” says Town of South Bruce Peninsula Mayor, Jay Kirkland.

The town wants the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn an April 2023 ruling that awarded a stretch of valuable sand along Sauble Beach’s shoreline to the Saugeen First Nation.

The Town’s appeal of that decision to the Ontario Court of Appeal was dismissed on Dec. 9, 2024.

At issue is an upcoming land survey by the Federal Government on …