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I live in Tiny Township we draw water from the purest source in the whole wide world , our local MPP JIll Dunlop unlike her father seems to be supporting Doug Ford and not her Simcoe constituants . A local observation of the surrounding farmland is that 100's of acres have been sold "to who" over the past year . To quote a local farmer directly affected by aggregates being washed in her back yard "And while the protest wasn’t held directly to protest aggregate washing or the region’s water supply, Pauzé has a message about the province’s plan to create thousands of new houses under Bill 23.

“If they build more houses, they’re going to need more aggregate, they’re going to need more resources,” she says, noting that will affect not only her farm’s water supply, but also greenspaces and farmland the province’s population relies on to ensure clean air, natural spaces and food.

“They should be building up, not out. And we’re just a spoke in the big wheel. The ecology, everybody’s going to be impacted. We need to think about the future and all those families that need to be fed.”

Pauzé said that since COVID hit, environmental groups have been splintered. These latest salvos from the province, however, have helped unite them again.