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This is wrong. This is backwards. This will not improve the housing crisis for those who are in most need of sustainable long term housing.

You need only look to page 10 of the Report of the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force Report where they state,
"a shortage of land isn’t the cause of the problem. Land is available, both inside the existing built-up areas and on undeveloped land outside greenbelts. We need to make better use of land. Zoning defines what we can build and where we can build. If we want to make better use of land to create more housing, then we need to modernize our zoning rules."

Breaking up the greenbelt is not a requirement to solve the housing problem.

Building on the greenbelt destroys land that was permanently protected for a reason. By allowing it to be broken apart in any way is the beginning of the end for our protected natural environment. A stand needs to be taken now to ensure its protection for years to come.

The housing crisis can be solved without destroying the greenbelt and I would add that the solution to the housing crisis should be to design better cities. Urban sprawl will only decrease quality of life and make worse issues we are already struggling to cope with i.e. climate change, gridlock, public transit.

Additionally, taking the choice out of the hands of the very communities who have planned to build in a sustainable way with a long-term plan that takes into account the voice of the people, public transit, urban densification, and environmental protections of farmland is an overreaching one-size fits all approach that does that does not meet the needs of the people of this province but furthers the interests of developers.