In today's world with…

In today's world with climate change, urban sprawl, and development into areas of significant ecological importance and destruction of vital habitats such as wetlands, we should not be weakening our policies but we should be strengthening them. To "cut red tape" as suggested in Bill 132, to make it easier for developers to build on significant ecosystems such as wetlands, grasslands and forests. I see this bill as a continuation of this governments plan to re-define environmentally significant areas and species at risk, some of which are currently protected and to systematically destroy the work that many environmentalists, citizens, voters, volunteers have worked so hard to ensure will better our province our country and our world.

We must stop thinking about money and we must think about our environment. A healthy economy depends on a healthy environment. The passing of this bill will take Ontario, this little part of the world, two steps backward, when we should be going forward to make our policies pertaining to development and mining stronger with real penalties for abuse. Please reject Bill 132 and replace it with one that recognizes the need to conserve and protect our environment first and foremost.