This proposed legislation is…

This proposed legislation is an egregious violation of a promise made to all Ontarians not to develop the Greenbelt. It will pave over prime agricultural land and put the integrity of our water recharge areas at risk. This legislation needs to be withdrawn.

The Conservative government is turning their millionaire donors into billionaires. We can see what you are doing.

If you were really serious about addressing the housing and affordability situation you would do the following:

1) Get the estimated $30 billion of dirty money circulating every year out of Ontario’s housing market.
Ontario housing targeted by money launderers realtor group says:
https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/ontario-housing-targeted-by-mone…
The BC government estimates that money laundering in real estate is responsible for a 5% price increase:
Billions in money laundering increased BC housing prices expert panel finds:
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019FIN0051-000914
2) Deliver 50,000 public and not-for-profit long-term care beds. There are almost 40,000 seniors waiting for long-term-care who no longer want to live in their homes. Moreover, many of their spouses are living alone in the family home because there are no spaces for them to live with their life-partner, even though it is promised by the LTC act. Providing seniors with the care they need and deserve would release thousands of homes into the housing market.

3) Implement a Province-wide vacancy tax. Combined with the Foreign Buyers Tax, the BC speculation tax saw 20,000 previously empty condo units in Vancouver come back onto the market. This tax also generated money to fund affordable housing.

Speculation and vacancy tax will help housing affordability in new communities.
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022FIN0028-001137

4) Give municipalities the power to impose permit expiry limits.
You’ve stacked things so that municipalities have to deliver within certain timeframes. How about developers? If developments aren’t completed within a given timeframe, then the approval should expire. There are hundreds of projects across the province which have been approved, but never built.

Keep your Greenbelt promise!