Do NOT eliminate concern for…

Do NOT eliminate concern for public health, the environment and public safety.

I have a three month old granddaughter, and these proposed planning changes make me terrified for her future.
Gone is any concern for the public health, safety, or environmental impacts of development and land use patterns (cf. the striking of 2.1.4 (c) from the statement).
Gone is the opening statement to Chapter 5 "Ontario's long-term prosperity, environmental health and social well-being depend on reducing the potential for public cost or risk to Ontario’s residents from natural or human-made hazards ."
Instead we have the goals of being competitive and prosperous.
This is wrong. Our planet is burning up in front of our eyes. People are dying in floods, forest fires, heat waves.

Small comfort that a few "competitive, prosperous" individuals will be able to afford expensive funerals.
Growth and development which ignores or threatens the environment must be curtailed.

You must bring back statements of concern for public health, safety and the environmental to planning and development in Ontario. These should be guiding principles.