The proposed changes to the…

The proposed changes to the Greenbelt are appallingly awful. The proposals to build on formerly protected lands benefit only the developers and their friends. They take precious farmland, forests, and wetlands, which should be protected in perpetuity, and hand them over to build exactly the wrong kind of housing in exactly the wrong kind of places.
We do not need or want any more urban sprawl, endless miles and miles of mostly single-family dwellings on suburban lots where people have to rely on cars for every errand, causing pollution and accelerating climate change. This is the way of the past. We MUST build within cities (and in environmentally sustainable ways). We cannot continue to allow, even encourage in this case, the building on lands that grow our food and sustain biodiversity, filter water, and sequester carbon.
What part of "we're all connected" do you not get? You cannot lose hectares and hectares of protected Greenbelt without doing irreparable damage to the environment. Science tells us that each tree in a forest is connected to many other trees and to other kinds of plants, fungi, and lichens, and they all support a huge number of lifeforms. Together they form complete systems. Cut one tree and the forest is harmed. And together the environment sustains life, including our own. With climate change running rampant, the last thing the world, and this piece of it called Ontario, just cannot possibly justify this retrograde move.
Rethink this too. It's one of the worst ideas ever. It might have worked in the short-sighted 1950s. It just endangers us all now. Stop it.