The removal of lands from…

The removal of lands from the Greenbelt should not happen. Doug Ford promised not to touch the Greenbelt back in 2018, and this proposed amendment flies directly in the face of that promise. Adding other lands does not conserve the biodiversity and ecological importance of the lands that would be removed; that's not how the environment works.
I am fully supportive of additional housing and consider myself very much a YIMBY, but this is not the way to improve our housing needs. The Province's own report from earlier this year noted that lack of land is not the issue! Instead we should be focused on densifying the land we already have, as too much of the GTHA is zoned exclusively for single family homes. We need innovative planning changes, which includes some of the changes proposed by the More Homes Built Faster Act, but this involving Greenbelt Lands is not one of them. We especially need bold planning changes in a climate emergency. Protect the Greenbelt, don't destroy it.