I oppose these amendments on…

I oppose these amendments on two levels: adequacy of political process, and environmental ignorance.

In terms of implementing the proposed changes, the political process is nothing more than:
1. provincial avoidance of housing responsibility by transferring the need and address to lower tier governments without consultation;
2. provincial government betrayal of public trust that favours moneyed friends, associates, and political supporters of the governing party;
3. action that promotes reckless and irresponsible urban sprawl without regard to ascertaining environmental costs, implications, and long-term fiscal responsibilities;
4. an impulsive move that cannot possibly address the issue of housing generally and certainly not for homeless people of most limited resources and most dire need;
5. denial of actual practical timelines and procedures for potential construction;
6. denial of functioning municipal planning capabilities by generating false expectations in utterly undemocratic manner that will result in fiscal crises for each involved municipality;
7. a failure to address collaboratively actual housing issues, options, and overall implications beyond the benefit of so-called "developers"; and
8. failure to engage all stakeholders toward the development of a long-term housing plan that moves beyond "developer" controlled structures and profits.

Beyond the above references to the destructive and narrow ill conceived political practices, the physical implications reveal:
1. ignorance and/or refusal to acknowledge the life-serving-preserving historic functions of morraines in particular and designated greenbelt space in general connective-integrity manner as well as implications for total involved watershed areas beyond the immediately identified greenbelt;
2. failure to accept and protect in perpetuity for the public of this province the functionality and benefits of these spaces, e.g., water purification, wildlife diversity, wildlife connectivity needs, general earth integrity;
3. failure or refusal to recognize expansive adverse environmental impacts of hastily crafted legislation in areas where infrastructural development and increased urban sprawl will have humongous adverse implications, e.g., diminished air quality, stressed water tables and quality, further threatened vulnerable species; and
4. a general fragmentation of perception that commodifies and monetizes natural processes that in and of themselves are part of the essentials of life above and beyond any applied monetary number.