A new Provincial Planning…

A new Provincial Planning Statement that would jeopardize decades of progress on land use policy. The Government is not taking into consideration the protection of wetlands, marshes, fens and bogs which are homes to many Traditional medicines for Indigenous people. The Ford Government has gone out of its way to minimize consultation process by authorizing more MZO's than all previous governments of the province combined. The talk about preserving Cultural Heritage is just talk apparently, if it were true than this new provincial planning statement wouldn't allow for the destruction or eradication of these wetlands whether significant or not. There would be more consultation with Indigenous people regarding this and Cultural Heritage. A lot of these wetlands are significant to the watershed and are recharge areas for aquifers. Indigenous people take water protection seriously, water is life.