I ask that Bill 212 be…

I ask that Bill 212 be withdrawn due to its threat to farmland, forests and wetlands which will disappear if it is built. The public has made it very clear to this government that it opposes this expansion of highway infrastructure for many reasons.

Bill 212 will exempt Highway 413 from any further environmental assessments. W-h-a-t!?

This highway will destroy 2000 acres of farmland and 400 acres of the Greenbelt and damage many Conservation Areas in Peel and York Regions.

The highway will slash the Nashville Conservation Reserve in half, cut across pristine streams and waterways that feed the Humber and Credit rivers and chop up what is currently a broad swathe of natural areas into pieces and pockets which won't be able to sustain the same beautiful diversity of plants and animals.

The building of this highway will not decrease traffic congestion but will increase it by creating more urban sprawl, adding thousands more cars to the highway systems of southern Ontario. The GHGs created by so many cars will put our climate goals out of reach by adding tons more pollution to southern Ontario.