In 2017 and again in 2021,…

In 2017 and again in 2021, the Ontario government held consultations to expand the Greenbelt. The government has never shared the results of these consultations.

Many organizations worked to produce the Bluebelt map that would protect and expand the Ontario Greenbelt including Brant County. The Greenbelt West Coalition working with members from Brant, Wellington and Waterloo Counties, and members of Six Nations and the Mississaugas of New Credit has produced a local map calling for the expansion (not reduction) of the Greenbelt. The map would protect land adjacent to the Greenbelt and the Grand River watershed.

We call upon the Ontario Government to protect the Greenbelt and expand it to include the Grand River watershed in Brant County. This watershed is protected in Hamilton, but the protection stops at the Brant County border. One of the key premises of expanding the Greenbelt is to include farmland and natural heritage land that is contiguous with the boundary of the Greenbelt.

We need to protect our precious farmland and the natural heritage from sprawl development.