I am very much against…

I am very much against opening the Greenbelt to development. I am also against the proposed changes to the role of Conservation Authorities.

I am an 8th-generation Canadian. My relatives were the first European settlers in Scarborough, David and Mary Thompson. I feel a deep connection to our Province, our country, and the future of our land.
Many experts have spoken about the more logical and viable solutions to the housing "crisis". Developing homes in spaces that are critical to our ecosystems will not help the young man living in a tent, in Trinity Bell Woods Park. The only thing this development will do is strip valuable farmlands, destroy watersheds, and sprawl homes where city and regional services don't exist...costing taxpayers money to provide services where they do not want homes built.

This approach to development is short-sighted and will not provide affordable housing for the people who need it the most, which is the actual housing crisis we are facing.

It is the responsibility of our government, and each citizen, to protect our land and our water. I believe this Bill will set our province down a path of environmental destruction that we might not be able to recover from. You can't get farmland back. You can't get clean watersheds back. You can't undo what you are proposing. And, the voters who elected you did not vote for this. In fact, voters believed their Conservative MPPs when they said your government would not do anything even remotely like this.

Please, listen to the experts, do not open this precious land and don't strip the Conservation Authorities of they're powers. Don't bulldoze my children's future.