Thank you for giving the…

Thank you for giving the citizens of Ontario an opportunity to comment. With respect to reducing the monitoring of our drinking water in the name of cutting red tape, Please don't! I understand the federal testing is not as thorough as our current provincial process. Has Walkerton been that far in the past? Our system has been developed carefully over the past years. The Federal system lacks the high standards our current provincial one provides us with.

On the matter of the green belt:
I share with just about every citizen of the province who is not a land developer or a would-be land developer, the need to control and protect this amazing resource. Once it falls to development it will never come back and if local municipalities open some currently protected land for development it will put incredible pressure on the rest of the land. I am very disappointed in the new government for even proposing this. The reaction of government officials interviewed on the local television was an insult to every thinking Ontarian. Their reaction demonstrated that they did not support this proposal while doing their duty as team players. Please remove this misguided proposal from the bill. I suspect that many Ontarians will not forgive the government for allowing municipalities to open up greenbelt land to development.

Please do your duty as the stewards of our wonderful province and keep those important things in place that protect its lands and residents.