With all due respect any…

With all due respect any change in policy through the new PPS which in any way diminishes, or allows Municipalities to diminish, existing Agricultural lands is not only shortsighted, but in fact is foolhardy. As our population swells every square inch of tillable, productive Agricultural land will be needed to simply feed our population. We may gain acres for housing the increasing population, but if there is not food to feed them, a roof overhead becomes meaningless.
Furthermore, the lands set aside for Greenbelt protection should be deemed sacrosanct and not meddled with in any way lest in 25 or 50 years from now we are forced to live in a desert of our own making. If any individual, corporation or other entity is found to have bought and sold land at a profit within 25 km of any public work such as the proposed Highway 413, said profits should be taxed away from the speculator by a land speculation tax and those funds used to defray the cost of the Public Work being undertaken.