Doug Ford, I was raised in…

Doug Ford,
I was raised in Caledon on a Dairy Farm that had been in our family for generations, farming approximately 200 acres just south of the Greenbelt. My family was pushed into poverty by factory farms and harrassed by developers demanding we sell while offering us little to no compensation for the quantity and quality of our land. We were forced out of our home which will soon be completely torn up and destroyed, replaced with a plethora of low quality built houses, shopping centers, and the ever growing, putrid Brampton. We understand that city's develop and expand, however, we the families and people of Caledon and those within the Greenbelt believe in conceiving nature and respecting the last of the natural land. The farmers proving the dairy, meat, eggs, and food you, Doug Ford consume are being belittled and abused. We would clean up the litter and filth left by the people from the city would toss from their car windows, we would be forced to clean up the mountains of bags packed with garbage, and mounds of soil and debris from home renovations, large garbage materials like mattresses and washing machines that were constantly dumped on our land by city folk who were too cheap and lazy to deal with it appropriately. Doug Ford, by opening the Greenbelt to developers you are telling the people who live there that they are less important than money in your pocket. You are showing the generations to come that preserving natural land is unimportant and that treating nature like garbage is okay. Doug Ford you show us, the people of Ontario that you have no dignity and that you do not respect the hard working farmers that put food in your stomach. Please, leave the Greenbelt as it was meant to be, a permanently protected area of green space, farmland, forests, and wetlands. The Greenbelt includes 800,000 acres (323,748.5 hectares) of land protected by the Niagara Escarpment Plan and the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan plus 1 million acres (404,685.6 hectares) of land in the Protected Countryside overarching Greenbelt Plan. That total (7,284 km² or 2,812 mi²) makes it one of the largest and most successful greenbelts in the world. You, Doug Ford, should be proud of Ontario for having such a successful and massive protected area. You should desire to expand such a beautiful and plentiful home to nature. Please, as the people stand together and ask you to stop the bill destined to destroy a sacred part of Southern Ontario. Thank you for reading my words.