Regarding ERO notice 019…

Regarding ERO notice 019-6216, 019-6217, 019-6218

According to the notices, the removal or redesignation of 15 areas of land and adding lands in the
ParisGalt Moraine area is intended to remove regulatory burdens for municipalities in order to effectively direct growth, optimize investments in infrastructure and support needed housing. Lands to be removed would no longer need to comply with prohibitions and requirements of the GreenBelt Plan.

As to my comments on the above, I'll quote two men and the government's own Housing Affordability Task Force.
In an interview with The Narwhal, Victor Doyle, the former provincial planner who's credited with
being an architect of the GreenBelt, stated, "It threatens the stability and certainty of the GreenBelt. It
undermines its permanency. This is the edge of the wedge that creates an incredibly powerful precedent that will weaken the GreenBelt significantly and allow it to be eroded through a death by a thousand cuts."
The connectivity of the GreenBelt lands was paramount in the creation of the Belt. Animals move, water flows. Lands on the edges are as important as those in the centers. Doyle said connectivity was top of mind when it was designed. The legislation that created it in 2005 may technically permit land swaps; it was never intended to allow them because the land was intentionally chosen.
When asked about the proposed swaps, Phil Pothen of Environmental Defence stated that it will
"start a never ending queue of GreenBelt land speculators at the minister's door, each with their own convenient rationalization for paving their own patch of GreenBelt."
Earlier this year the government's own Housing Affordability Task Force said, "A shortage of land isn't the cause of the problem. Land is available, both inside existing built-up areas and on undeveloped land outside the GreenBelt." A bigger problem, the report said, is that Ontario hasn't used the land efficiently.
Protected lands aren't protected just for people. GreenBelt lands are protected for food security in a world of climate upheaval. GreenBelt lands are trees, marshes, rivers and streams, farmlands and they're also homes for countless species--animal, reptiles, insects, birds. What happens to the residents of GreenBelt lands that are "swapped"? It's pay and slay, buried alive as soon as the developers move their earth movers in. It happens all the time. It shouldn't be allowed to happen this time.
There's no good reason to do any of this.