I feel strongly concerned…

I feel strongly concerned regarding Schedule 10 of this Bill, and the danger of providing encouragement to local municipalities to bypass environmental regulations currently in place, relative to the Greenbelt, farmland, and clean water.

I live in a rural area of a community in the GTA which is in the Greenbelt. Nevertheless I have watched a developer/ owner systematically destroy all hedgerows on the neighbouring farm, ostensibly to support the tenant farmer. We neighbours are strongly suspicious that his real motive is to fasttrack development of the farm when Doug Fords' bill is passed, even though it is part of the Greenbelt.

I feel strongly that environmental regulations are not Red Tape, but critical to the health and survival of our community and our globe, and thus must be upheld. I appeal to you to consider this, and change Schedule 10 to protect the environment from rapacious and profit-driven business.