The proposed changes to the…

The proposed changes to the Heritage Act are not needed, and will not address the issue of creating affordable housing.

Municipal Heritage registers are a useful and transparent tool for identifying heritage resources and requiring properties currently listed on registers to be either designated or removed within 2 years will be catastrophic for Ontario's heritage. Especially for small municipalities without the capacity to identify and protect their heritage.

Increasing the threshold for designating cultural heritage resources will also hurt Ontario's heritage, especially the heritage of marginalized Ontarians where sites may only meet one of the prescribed criteria for designation.

The government should be tackling more significant causes of the affordability crisis. I've heard absolutely no one, blame the preservation of Ontario's heritage for the high cost of homes.