27% of the Bruce Trail, a…

27% of the Bruce Trail, a provincial treasure, is located on Conservation Authority land. Those lands in turn are part of a carefully constructed network of protection for the most sensitive watersheds of the province's rivers. There is no possibility of substitution of these lands for other properties without completely undermining public health safeguards.

Subdivision expansion on conservation floodplains, already far too prevalent across the northern regions of the Golden Horseshoe, will lead to detrimental demands on the Province's finances in coming years and decades as uninsured flood disasters become more frequent and severe.

Sound public policy should stop the proposed fragmentation of the Greenbelt in its tracks. If public policy instead is allowed to prioritize commercial and political interests ahead of societal and environmental wellbeing, Ontario will no longer be an enviable 'Place to Grow'.