Dear Editor:
An open letter to Steven Guilbeault, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change.
Thank you for your comments in support of stopping development of our critical Greenbelt in Ontario!
Many of us agree: “Ontario’s push to develop Greenbelt land flies in the face of everything we’re trying to do in terms of being better prepared for the impacts of climate change.” Those words gave many of us, alarmed by the threat to our Greenbelt, an important message of support.
Former mayor of Toronto David Crombie, in his Toronto Star article, applauded your intention to fight for Ontario’s Greenbelt. He notes that opposition in Ontario to the development of our Greenbelt “has been wide, deep and constant.”
In our town of Centre Wellington you see many lawn signs on various streets in both Fergus and Elora stating
Doug Ford: keep your Greenbelt promise!” Reassuring to hear you’ll look at the potential use of federal tools to stop some of these development projects.
There is so little time left to reverse the accumulating loss of biodiversity in our world. This Greenbelt land is not needed to create sufficient housing. There is, though, money to be made. Greed and an ignorance of the ramifications of losing ecosystems have brought our Earth to this point.
Thank you in advance for taking action.
Carolyn Crozier,
Elora