This government is proposing…

This government is proposing a complete paradox with this policy: protect the environment and agricultural land but also force municipalities to expand into rural and agricultural areas to build unaffordable homes, but also they need to be mixed-use homes that are affordable.

My main comment is a request, as a constituent of Ontario, that this government be honest and plainly state that this plan has nothing to do with either protecting our environment, food supply, nor does it actually work towards providing more affordable housing. Just admit it. We know that this plan can’t work as written - it doesn’t make any sense.

Respect the democratic decisions of municipalities that have said they don’t want to expand their urban boundaries. Support cities in building modern, reliable transit. Remove barriers for developing densified housing within our cities. Stop paving wetlands and green spaces we need to prevent flooding and protect the ecology in Ontario.

This plan and all of Ontario’s current housing and development plans are criminally negligent and obviously ineffective in what they say they aim to do. This government ought to be ashamed, both for lying directly to our faces continually and without shame, as well as for how blatantly self-serving these policies are.

I guess that’s my last comment: I humbly request that every member of the majority conservative party in Ontario be ordered to at least attempt to understand their hypocrisy and moral failing with this plan and their governance in general. If that can’t be done, if they can’t rationally conceptualize the damage they’re doing and even feel some shame about it, then we’re really in a horrible situation and this public feedback won’t matter, will it?