I am firmly opposed to these…

I am firmly opposed to these greenbelt changes.

I believe that it is completely unnecessary to achieving the goal of
building more housing of the type needed. Instead it will result in
the building of over-priced, standalone houses in sprawled communities
because that is what developers believe will make them the most money.
It appears that it will reduce affordable housing conditions and
infrastructure charges on those developers. It ignores problems of
watershed management and climate change, farmland preservation, and it
will serve as a precedent for future similar greenbelt changes.

I more often vote liberal, but I have voted conservative as well,
depending on the platforms of the parties for the future and their
behaviour of the past. I suspect there are quite a few people like
me, as opposed to the hard-over-one-way-or-another-people that
politicians tend to associate with most. I think that the current
conservative government is showing that it is not particularly
competent (this bill, Bill 124, opposition to the federal climate
change provisions, ... cancelling renewable energy contracts, the
Taverner/OPP debacle - it's a long list). Worst than that even, they
are also showing themselves to be not trustworthy. After saying that
they would preserve the greenbelt, then making this change: not
trustworthy. Developers buying this land before this change was made
public: not trustworthy.

Trust once lost is very difficult to regain. I think they risk
spending a lot of time in the political wilderness after this term if
they go ahead with this. This could be their version of the liberals
gas plants.