Dear Editor:
Pierre Poilievre’s climate plan is straightforward and simple: do absolutely nothing.
Is he anticipating the number of jobs his plan would create replacing washed-out infrastructure, putting out wildfires and rebuilding destroyed homes?
However, he may be concerned that there won’t be enough workers available to build more pipelines.
While Poilievre’s is a do-nothing plan, Premier Doug Ford’s plan aggressively seeks climate Armageddon!
He started by cancelling 750 green energy projects and through lack of foresight, now needs to ramp up the burning of natural gas by 600% to stave off an electricity shortage.
He intends to pave over Ontario farmland and natural habitat. He wants to restrict the ability of communities to require new homes to have a net-zero carbon footprint. He is removing the powers of conservation authorities to limit development, so groups will no longer need to consider factors like pollution or land conservation when approving building permits – so they won’t. And now he is hoping to encroach on the Greenbelt and increase urban sprawl.
In 2018 Doug Ford said a Tory government would maintain the Greenbelt in its entirety and enshrine that pledge in the party’s soon-to-be-released platform.
“I looked at it as making sure we have more affordable housing,” Ford said of his initial position. “The people have spoken. I’m going to listen to them; they don’t want me to touch the Greenbelt, we won’t touch the Greenbelt.”
Toronto’s Green Standard was passed unanimously by city council in 2013 — with the vote of then-councillor Doug Ford.
Doug Ford says one thing and does the opposite. We didn’t vote for Ford’s plan – he didn’t tell us he was going to do any of this. Don’t make the same mistake with Poilievre!
Ron Moore,
Hillsburgh