I think the new government…

I think the new government has a great opportunity here to deliver on their promise to remove red tape in Ontario. The previous Liberal governments were indeed over-zealous to regulate everything they could possibly think of and this was driven by their deep distrust of individuals and businesses to make right decisions. An example is that you need approval from the Escarpment Commission to install solar panels on your roof. That obviously defies any logic. Consequently, people in this region (including myself) lost confidence and trust in the Escarpment Commission and their neighbouring organisations in the Green Belt region. At the same time, most people you would ask are in favour of conserving and protecting our (somewhat) rural areas around the GTA. So the issue is more to win over people's hearts with a reasonable set of regulations that citizens can follow, rather than scrapping the Green Belt protection the majority wants to maintain. Delegating the protection to the municipalities is not an effective solution because it is a) a regional issue in the first place and b) some municipalities are lacking competence to decide on matters of such great importance.