It seems like every day I’m…

It seems like every day I’m fighting something that this government is trying to push through where the public has no idea what the real implications are. I stand with the Farmer’s of Ontario who are concerned about the loss of farmland and surrounding areas of Greenbelt all of which are important to the survival of every member of Ontario. Once we lose viable farmland, we will not get it back.
I grew up in Mississauga with beautiful memories of a farm at the end of my road - a destination we could walk to and see their Shetland ponies, smell the fresh earth, and apple flowers. This was at the corner of Hwy 5 and Erin Mills parkway. That being paved over when I was still a child, we spent many magical Sundays in the ‘country’ to go for walks and see the trees. This was in Oakville - just west of Winston Churchill - only 15 minutes from home. Today, one must drive over an hour to be in open space. The Greenbelt is cut by massive roads and wildlife are trapped in small unnatural corridors (this is a whole separate issue). I currently live in Ottawa which was always a nice size surrounded by green space. Urban sprawl and farmland loss is becoming an issue now here. I moved here because it seemed to be designed much better and it was easy to move through greenbelt right from my backyard. Efforts are being made to densify (kudus urban planners) but again, farmland is being chopped to bits on all sides -Ottawa South, Barrhaven, Orleans and Kanata.

Protections are already barely protecting our vital farmland and greenspace. Please do not loosen restrictions to make it easier for their destruction to happen.