I really have to wonder why…

I really have to wonder why this government bothers to spend public money on having task forces such as the Affordable Homes Task Force spend time and energy drawing up and making reports if the government ignores the findings and does as it pleases anyway. The task force clearly stated that there was room in the province to build 2,000,000 homes WITHOUT having to encroach on the Greenbelt or sprawl onto farmland. But this bill supports the idea of sprawl onto farmland by:

*fragmenting and permanently removing irreplaceable farmland,

*lining rural concession roads with non-farmer residential housing,

*overwhelming municipal/regional service providers, and inflating farmland prices for the benefit of speculators and developers and to the detriment of future farmers

*disrupting agricultural operations

If we learned nothing else from the Covid crisis it was that local food supplies were critical to our survival. There is no point in building homes if people are unable to afford them and unable to purchase wholesome affordable food. We are already losing farmland at an unsustainable rate. This needs to STOP, NOW!