Please remove schedule 10…

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Please remove schedule 10 from Bill 66. At this time in our history it is critical to protect our natural resources. Clean water, air and soil are necessary for our survival but the current Ontario government is not taking this seriously. Premier Ford is reneging on his promise not to develop Ontario's Greenbelt. It would be a selfish and irresponsible action to threaten the Greenbelt that protects the most basic needs of the general public.
Clean water and air are not to be taken for granted. Are we to end up like the Chinese having to wear masks due to heavy air pollution? Will there be more deaths due to unsafe drinking water which has already happened in Ontario's recent past in Walkerton? It would be a huge mistake to assume that these necessities will simply come from somewhere else. Clean air and fresh drinkable water are not ubiquitous anymore. Recent studies concerning Lake Ontario have revealed that pollution levels are much worse than previously thought. From micro-plastics to invasive species, our major source of drinking water in Ontario is fragile and under great pressure due to ill treatment as a result of human activity.
We need to alter our behavior in order to respect and protect our basic resources in Ontario. The Oak Ridges Moraine and every other wetland body left in our province is necessary to help provide clean water to the greater Toronto area. Developing it would be a critical mistake and probably an irreversible one too. Why is it so difficult for us to understand that without a good stock of natural resources, humans will suffer? It is rudimentary geography.
If Premier Ford passes Bill 66 as is, people may not have what they need to survive comfortably in the near future. Even if he denies that Climate Change is happening right now (where's winter??) and that the effect of Climate Change may sour our fresh water supply much faster than ever thought possible, we still need clean water and air and soil to drink, breath and grow food. A shortage of any one of these basic human needs would be a major unaffordable crisis for Ontario and Canada. This Bill is nothing short of wreckless.
Please come to your senses and protect these basic natural resources that our survival depends upon. We certainly can live with a little less greed and competition in the race to develop every bit of our land. In Ontario, we have already drained too many wetlands, paved too much rich agricultural soil, and pump too many toxins into our atmosphere. We need to save what's left -- this is vitally important for Ontario's population needs.