It is true that more housing…

It is true that more housing is needed in Ontario. The proposed changes to the OWES attempt to greatly reduce the services offered by the MNRF and virtually eliminate the concept of the wetland complex. It is shocking to see these suggested changes – the province is proposing, in effect, to abdicate its responsibility for protecting vital elements of the biosphere in a misguided attempt to suggest that some wetlands have to be sacrificed in order to build new housing. You cannot buy more living wetlands later, once wildlife habitat has been paved over and its species have been literally doomed to extinction, to say nothing of the effects these changes can have on our climate. The short sightedness of the proposed plan reveals that our planet's destruction is being hastened in the service of the kind of 'progress' that got us into this mess in the first place.