Local decision-making by…

Local decision-making by accountable governments is incredibly important for keeping governments from making changes that will have long term costs and consequences to future generations, such as Bill 23.

I am concerned about the protection of natural heritage being streamlined and allowed to be 'offset'.
There is no good way to offset the destruction of nature. Human constructs lack the soil and growth complexity that is necessary for biodiversity and clean air/soil/water. These changes are dangerous because they make less protections for land and waterways. And when you talk of streamlining for developers at the expense of conservation rulings, it is terrifying. Developers are motivated for short-term profit. They will build for high-cost housing and not solve the housing issue. They will build for sprawl not up. We need to use the land we have and tax out of existence large homes that consume energy and reduce housing space and use that tax and land to build smaller affordable units and up not out.