As a mother, teacher and…

As a mother, teacher and citizen I am opposed to bill 66, especially in the following postulates:
- allowing businesses to by-pass or get easier approval for environmental related laws and by-laws if jobs are created. No jobs now can make up for polluted land, air and/or water for our kids. I use to live in the Green Belt and I still live very close to it. I try to buy local produce and want the farm land to remain farm land and forests remain forests. If anything, we need more of both, not less, to feed growing population locally and to provide many places for people to enjoy outdoors.

- I am against the process that overrides public consultation. Anything of this scale, that dismantles protections to other environment, absolutely must go through public consultation. If a particular community decides that healthy environment for their children matters less than jobs created now, that is alright, but that is community deciding, not government deciding for them.

As a taxpayer (and quite high too) I want my opinion to be respected. Business don't vote for government, people do, as government, you are here to serve people, not businesses.