I strongly oppose the…

I strongly oppose the proposal for several reasons:

- the greenbelt constraint on urban land zoning is an important constraint that incentivizes thoughtful and purposeful land use in the GTA, and is necessary to combat the problem of urban sprawl
- the environmental importance of the habitats and watershed areas of the golden horseshoe must be understood as a complex and interconnected natural system that other human systems (i.e. our agricultural and hydrological usage) must be in balance with

Furthermore, the purported reasons and benefits given by the government are cynically wrong and disappointing:
- the only people in Ontario who benefit from building more overpriced subdivision houses in cookie-cutter communities are the *developers* who bought up farmland 20+ years ago and are fast bedfellows with anyone who will stamp permits
- the provincial government is peddling a cynical line that more land is needed to house people immigrating to Ontario due to the massive immigration quotas that the federal and provincial governments are pushing. This is at best half-true: if 0.5M people are to immigrate to Ontario, the housing they need should still be built in appropriate locations, spread throughout the province to repopulate centres that have been depopulating for decades---there is no expedient need to touch the greenbelt. However note that this immigration polity is itself poorly conceived; rather than address the actual budgetary problem Ontario faces---the cost associated with an aging population by reforming and limiting OHIP costs (which form 50% of the budget, in which high-cost users consume 80% of the resources)---the short-sighted solution to bring in more workers to even out a population pyramid is being peddled. The solution is not more revenue: the solution is to control and cap costs, and require people to use private insurance beyond yearly OHIP maximums. The immigration policy creating an influx of 5M people yearly is the driving force of housing pressure and subsequent property-related inflation, and the provincial government's short-sighted proposal to pave over the greenbelt in response to their own poorly conceived policies and inability to address the root cause is disappointing.

I strongly disagree with the destruction of the natural environment systems we rely on in this province; it only profits developers, creates more urban sprawl, and abets ridiculous healthcare and immigration policy that are the root causes of inflation and cost-of-living crises.