Doug Ford promised to keep his hands off our Greenbelt. Let's hold him to that promise.

Carving off parcels of the Greenbelt as gifts to pro-sprawl developers and wealthy land speculators is just plain wrong. It puts our farmland at risk as well as people’s property as the frequency and severity of extreme weather events escalates. All this on top of Bill 23, which guts Conservation Authorities’ powers and the province’s wetland protection system. Ontario is in a housing crisis and we need to build more homes. But opening up environmentally sensitive areas like the Greenbelt for expensive sprawl development is not the answer. We need to build the type of housing that people can afford, in the communities they want to live in. That means real solutions like building midrise on main streets and transit corridors, and allowing fourplexes and walk-up apartments in neighbourhoods. It means making use of the existing built-up space we have in Ontario instead of bulldozing wetlands, floodplains and farmland.