First of all I would like to…

First of all I would like to congratulate this provincial government for all the changes it is making. As a farmer in a urban rural municipality bill 23 will help to reduce red tape. Dissolving halton region planning department and regulatory responsibilities of conservation halton reduces red tape for all levels of development from a septic tank replacement to a agricultural building to a house. Then why are you proposing PRIME AG MAPS that first of all for our farm have incorrect soil designation, and are incorrect. How does 1 farm on the street still have rural land designation and 2 doors down have prime ag when we have always had rural designation. There was never any notification that you were changing designations and as a PC government when did you ever agree with land expropriation. This is a counter to bill 23 where you took the CAregulation responsibility away. Now you want to propose a conservation proposal of Prime Ag restricting our land use and values. This is my hard earned money and savings and you want to add another layer of restrictions? And when I retire restrict who buys my property. Why don’t you add these layers to the homes in the urban area? Who is advising this, OMAFRA OFA? Well they are not 46;000 farm voters in Ontario. OFA is 40 employees and not 46,000farm owners. This is land expropriation without paying the deficit I will get when I sell my farm. This is illegal and will end up in courts. If this is a proposal then why are prime ag maps already on the OMAFRA website? You need to be transparent as A government that I elected and remove this from any ONTARIO.CA maps that are already online. And stop listening to OFA as they do not represent rural urban farmers. We are in our own category. We have layers upon layers of restriction from NEC, CA, NHS, Region, environmental lobbying from eco groups all claiming to restrict what does not belong to them as they didn’t pay for it. STOP THIS INSANITY