This is not necessary and it…

This is not necessary and it has nothing to do with affordable housing. Building on wetlands and in their buffers (aka NOT PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED LANDS) will be risky, unethical, and expensive. There is an opportunity to build more units/houses in existing built-up areas and areas that are not wetlands or their buffers. Wetlands and their buffers provide so much for us - they clean air, protect our drinking water supply, they sink carbon, they provide flood control, and they provide habitat for so much amazing biodiversity. Downgrading Provincially Significant Wetlands and their associated protections is a "short term solution" (even though we all know it will not result in a single truly affordable home being built) that will have detrimental and irreversible impacts. PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS PASS.