Bill 66 clearly is being…

Bill 66 clearly is being pushed forward in order to protect the interests of the few, not the many. Risking our clean drinking water, exposing the community to toxic chemicals, and allowing our remaining green space to be chiseled away by industry is fundamentally bad for our city and for the people. This also does not account for the harm that these impacts will have on the local ecosystems that impact our local environment ability to thrive and grow (such as farmland). The only people who will benefit are the developers, and even then they will only benefit for a short time. With climate change being a globally recognized crisis for our planet, we need to focus on rallying our community to protect our environment and the resources that we rely on to live healthfully and safely (i.e. clean water, clean air, and safe to eat farmed foods). Once these resources are gone, they are gone, and instead of focusing on creating legislation that recognizes this inherent life-threatening risk to our community our government instead creates legislation that does the exact opposite. We have a responsibility to our community and to the environment that we live in to protect it, and subsequently protect the things that keep us healthy and alive. To do otherwise is to agree to a slow, painful death for the many in the monetary interests of a few.