I do not support any…

I do not support any ammendment to allow any development in the Greenbelt. This jeopardizes the entire Greenbelt, as land speculators will be lining up to lobby the government to develop in additional areas (as they already have).

Municipalities submitted their growth plans that accommodate growth until 2051. This land is not needed. Plan land use wiser and treat land like the finite resource that it is. Even the Housing Affordabilty Task Force said that a lack of land is not the issue.

Development is the Greenbelt violates indigenous Charter rights, as indigenous communities do not support this ammendment and they were not properly consulted.

We are experiencing a climate crisis. We should be preserving all possible land - especially land that is supposed to be protected and agricultural land. I do not support a land swap. The Greenbelt is a complex ecosystem - you can't just "swap land." Although I support having additional land added to the Greenbelt, the land proposed to be added is already protected, so this "land swap" is deceiving.

To add insult to injury, current taxpayers will end up funding the infrastructure for this sprawl, as many development fees will be eliminated due to Bill 23. It is already known that suburban sprawl is subsidized by denser, downtown communities. The people of Ontario will not sit back and fund having our environment destroyed and our health and safety put at risk.

Leave the Greenbelt alone and build compact, walkable, public-transit feasible, sustainable communities within the thousands of land already approved for development. Paving the Greenbelt does nothing to address the housing crisis or the climate crisis.