I support this pledge to…

I support this pledge to grow the size of the Greenbelt, in order to protect our beautiful farmlands and natural spaces from urban sprawl! I wish for the Greenbelt to be expanded in order to protect our clean drinking water resources, biodiversity, and the ecosystem services that biodiversity provides us with such as mitigation against flooding and drought.

However, addition to growing the greenbelt's size, it's important to ensure that the wildlife habitat protected by the greenbelt remains protected and unfragmented. Urban sprawl in the Niagara Escarpment is fragmenting Jefferson Salamander habitat, an at risk species which is extremely sensitive to environmental toxins such as road salt brought on by urbanization.

In keeping with your promise not to remove lands from the Greenbelt, I ask that the government cancel plans to build Highway 413 (GTA West) and the Bradford Bypass (Holland Marsh Highway), which will damage existing Greenbelt lands and accelerate sprawl.