The greenbelt should not be…

The greenbelt should not be reduced nor built upon. It provides valuable green space, maintains air quality, and limits reckless urban sprawl.

While the housing crisis is real, building additional sprawl in the form of expensive single family detached homes on precious, finite arable and green land is absolutely not a solution. It will not fundamentally address the housing problem but it will squander away a value resource. The only people who will benefit from this are developers.

Housing can be addresses by increasing urban density and requiring condo and similar developments to build for families and not just single people, we can mandate allotments of affordable units in new and refinished developments in existing urban areas, and we can tax suburban areas appropriately for their disproportionate cost.

Green space is a small policy we keep that in line with addressing climate change, building livable cities, keeping healthy public spaces, and supporting the Canadian way of life and the Canadian value of access to outdoor spaces for all. Reducing the green belt would therefore be actively unpatriotic.

Please do not proceed with this reckless, unnecessary and incompetent plan.