Dear Editor:
Premier Doug Ford’s nefarious new plan for an even bigger increase of housing in Ontario (except for those who need it most!) on agricultural, farming and wetlands makes you wonder where we will get our food and water from in the future.
And what is a town without protection of it’s heritage properties? We cherish the histories of our small towns, which is what gives them their charm. Cutting down trees, draining wetlands and softening climate change protective policy puts us all in dire straits.
We do need more affordable housing, which Ford is removing the focus on. I think the very perceptive boy who wrote from John Black Public school was right about low-rise housing, which would use less space and save land and trees for food, water and breathing.
I learned when I was eight years old that trees made it rain, trees produced oxygen and trees shade us from the increasingly hot sun. I wonder if Ford has a retentive memory. He is young enough to know that he will still be around when the excrement hits the fan.
Christy Doraty,
Fergus