The new Provincial Planning…

The new Provincial Planning Policy with the goal of providing 1.5 million new homes by 2031 sounds like a recipe for short-term economic prosperity, but long-term economic disaster and an environmental nightmare. The plan does not take into consideration the Ontario Endangered Species Act, Environmental Protection Act or the federal Migratory Bird Act. 1.5 million new homes in an area that is already over developed is simply reckless and short sighted. Population growth from within Ontario and immigration will simply fuel the demand for further and further housing and create an appetite that cannot be satisfied. This will lead to further deterioration of the environment, loss of natural habitat, decreased species diversity, loss of farmland and greater congestion and loss of quality of life. The mismanagement of our watersheds with overdevelopment will leaded to greater environment disasters such as flooding as well as water supplies for drinking water which will naturally be attributed to climate change the scape goat for all that ails us as apposed to the real reason mismanagement of our watersheds by over development and overpopulation. Relying on China, India and Mexico to provide Ontarians with food and raw materials appears to our solution to prosperity.