The Algonquin to Adirondack Collaborative is an environmental charity which works to protect wildlife and to maintain habitat connectivity for wildlife through the broad region from Algonquin Park in Ontario to the Adirondack Park in New York State.
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My family is very disturbed by many of the implications and consequences of the proposed Bill 66.
It is a betrayal, to allow developers access to Greenbelt land, which really needs governmental protection!
Farmland is so precious; once destroyed cannot be replaced.
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Report Recommendations:
That in consideration of Staff Report CS-19-009 respecting Ontario Bill 66, Restoring Ontario Competiveness Act, 2018 Comment, Community Services Committee:
1) Receive the report for information purposes;
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It is with great concern that I am addressing this new legislation. I feel that this government is irresponsible in proposing these changes to the existing regulations.
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We can not afford to roll back measures that have been put in place to protect the environment. Once it's gone, whether areas of the Greenbelt, or the health of a river etc., it is either impossible or prohibitively expensive to recover the resources we had.
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Ontario’s Greenbelt is the largest greenbelt in the world spanning 325 kilometres . This expansive stretch of integrated green space is integral to the agricultural sector, enhancing natural environments, and supporting liveable climate-resilient communities.
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The Town is concerned with the potential long-term and broad-reaching impacts of permitting major employment development that does not conform to longstanding provincial environmental legislation.
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Bill 66: Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act.
The Provincial Government is proposing to make changes to the Planning Act to create a new economic development tool, the Open-for-Business Planning By-law.
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The Ford government is setting Ontario on a fast track BACKWARDS. We need to protect the healthy land and ecosystems we have left. We need to protect agricultural lands THAT LITERALLY FEED OUR CITIZENS!
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January 18, 2019
Michael Helfinger
Intergovernmental Policy Coordination Unit
Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
900 Bay Street, Hearst Block, 7th Floor
Toronto, ON M6H 4L1
Ken Petersen
Provincial Planning Policy Branch
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We need to protect our water, our communities, and we need to stop urban sprawl. Doug Ford said he would protect the Greenbelt. I'd hate to think him a liar.
Our farmland, rivers, lakes and fragile ecosystems are already under threat.
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“Remove Schedule 10 from Bill 66, which allows municipalities to override provisions in the Greenbelt Act, Clean Water Act, Lake Simcoe Act, Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act and Great Lakes Protection Act.”
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