8.7 billion dollars is…

8.7 billion dollars is contributed by the Canadian equine industry to canadas GDP. And mostly to Ontario. Mohawk race track contributes 10 million dollars to Milton. Ontario has more horses and contributes more to Ontario than Kentucky.
In 2012 the premier Dalton McGuinty was sent a letter from the racing industry how he single handily almost lost 55,000 jobs in Ontario and that he was destructively destroying the Ontario horse and breeding industry. This was a social and agricultural disaster in 2010 2.3 billion was contributed to Ontario GDP. Today it is was more. You are doing the same thing a different way with the agriculture system approach. STOP changing your designation approach since 2018 with prime agriculture designation removing rural lands and saying they are agriculture when they are not. You are destroying agriculture in Halton especially Burlington as the environmental extremists are celebrating so that they can control the rural lands but not approve the infrastructure to support the equine industry. Burlington does not promote Agricultural buildings or OFDUs . Their plans with the new CEO is to probably create a designated biosphere in the rural area as it was tried before without public consent and approval so it did not succeed. And you the MMAH are feeding right into with PRIME Ag designation. The Burlington OP has already removed the rural designation from their maps and increased more land in the agricultural system. Now all we hear is the buzz word agricultural system which is another word for extreme environmentalism. For planning staff in Halton and Burlington it never was to support agriculture but to create extreme environmentalism with setbacks and buffers to the natural environment. What does this have to do with the money poured into Ontario especially Halton where the most horse barns exist? Well staff are stalling new builds, they cease and desist arenas and riding tracks and new building builds all the while wanting your funding for new builds. Sounds harsh but nevertheless true when farmers are told they need to protect invasive species like poison ivy to maintain the canopy. This is madness and the PPS is feeding right into this reality. You really want to help agriculture then delete this agriculture system as we were doing much better in the early 2000’s compared to now. STOP all this municipality designation as some use this as a back door way to actually destroy agriculture. We are at a crucial juncture and we do not know any other way but to say the PPS is hurting an industry that is bringing money and jobs and goods into the economy. And it will disappear quietly if you do not do something about it. Keep the greenbelt but stop removing the rural designation and turning the rural lands into agriculture systems that do not even meet the agriculture CLI and LEAR criteria.
TRUTH!!!