Once a species is gone,…

Once a species is gone, there is no going back. So I disagree that we have to sacrifice species for the ease of for-profit developers and the like. Is wiping out the environment to build more cookie cutter LARGE single family dwellings that needed? Who can afford to buy these homes (even if you take out the cost of the "delay" the price is too high, and I would suspect developers would not lower their prices even if they saved money - they would just charge what the market can bear)? Why should we encourage such low density housing that will add more pollution, and strain the existing main highways leading to Toronto, where everyone seems to want to drive to, in their big SUV's? I live in Hamilton. I look around and there is plenty of land just sitting idle. Why not buy up that land and reclaim it and build housing on that if you need to? I don't appreciate "bully" tactics by politicians. If I did, I would move to the US. This will not solve homeless issues. If the urban sprawl was not so blatant, we would not need so much new infrastructure, which once built, adds to the cost of maintaining them, so more taxes - or worse: dumping costly programs on municipalities so the Ontario budget can look better. As an accountant, when I look at the waste (for example, shoddy highway construction and repair) in government, it makes me ashamed of our government.