As an Ontario resident, I…

As an Ontario resident, I would be far more supportive of an initiative to repurpose existing urban and suburban spaces for housing than this plan to remove a significant part of the Ontario Greenbelt. There are empty industrial spaces and office buildings throughout the province that could be repurposed as living spaces with less disruption to our important and already diminished green spaces.
In the face of our current climate uncertainty it seems short-sighted to cut into such an important natural feature of our province. It takes such a short time to eradicate an environment and such a long time to rebuild and regrow, and that is not taking into consideration the issue of paving over floodplains and waterways, which can and likely will cause future flooding to planned developments. I would ask Doug Ford and the provincial government to look at viable alternatives to protect our ecological future and to make better use of unused urban spaces and to leave the Greenbelt intact.