While future housing is…

While future housing is needed, even more necessary is the assured future of vastly more locally produced agriculture which can be delivered locally and consumed locally, significantly reducing costs and pollution. Some of our previous governments had the foresight to plan for a greener, cleaner, and more locally self-sustainable future. Thus the protected green belt; a highly successful cooperative cap and trade system with Quebec and California; agreements to develop wind and solar farms; a rebate program to encourage electric vehicles. All of these would drive a sustainable future for Ontario. Housing is needed, too. It can be done through densification of the existing urban footprint rather than creating even more sprawl. Please, add to the green belt in the Galt area as proposed, because more protected land is needed for agriculture. But do not remove the 15 areas from protection. Instead, make more efficient use of existing urban lands through densification and improving public transit.