Dear Premier Ford and his…

Dear Premier Ford and his administration or whoever has the job of reading all these consultations letters,

I grew up in an area of Ontario called Bethany in the Kawartha Lakes along the 7A Highway where half the town on the other side of the highway is part of the greenbelt in 2005. Because of this half of the town that would have been more suburbs was able to say as nature intended. Nature was always the best part of growing up in Bethany and I always hoped I would be able to share it with my future children and grandchildren. I don't know if you or your administration plan on taking Bethany out of the greenbelt in the future but you do plan on opening up other areas in this new proposal of your administration. However, I do know that on at least three different occasions you and your administration have been pushing forward legislation and proposals and bills for the past four years trying open the greenbelt for commercial development quietly and then as soon as there is an uproar you backtrack and promise not to touch it again. But I can see that ever since your successful reelection and now having more votes in the assembly, you and your party are more emboldened to have another chance to open the green belt up again. The very precedent of the green belt being something that can just be easily removed and undermined is already having an effect on my town were areas that used to be beautiful forests that would surround you are now turning into empty fields with barbed wire and no longer accessible and this is only a small plot of land. I don't want Bethany to lose its nature and beauty for the sake of some very expensive suburbs. I do not approve of or support any legislation that undermines the safety of the greenbelt. The places that DO NEED HOUSING are in the major cities of the GTA where houses go for $1 million and rent is out of control because companies like Airbnb take up needed living space for the sake of profiting from tourists and its lack of public housing being built or maintained to so housing can more easily be achieved for those with low incomes who may be living pay cheque to pay cheque and just barely getting by.