Existing serviced green and…

Existing serviced green and brown lands in cities are sufficient for the expected urban growth in southern Ontario without the need for any expansion into the Greenbelt as proposed by these two bills. The expansion will result in costlier homes, not only in terms of rental and purchase prices, but also in pollution and environmental damages. Food prices will increase. The only benefit I see is for the real estate developer in the short term. We have followed the maxim of urban sprawl since the sixties and are seeing the damaging consequences. Let us learn from the past and let these bills due on the order paper. No to the expansion of urban sprawl into the farmlands of southern Ontario.