Join me in calling for the government to grow the Greenbelt to protect our water, wildlife and communities

Grow the Greenbelt

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We need your help to urge the Government Ontario to grow the Greenbelt and protect at-risk waters in the Greater Golden Horseshoe.

Sign the letter below, by March 07, 2018 in response to the proposal called Protecting Water for Future Generations: Growing the Greenbelt in the Outer Ring (EBR 013-1661).

The decisions made now will have a lasting impact for our water, nature and communities.

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Dear Premier Wynne,

Cc:  Hon Minister Mauro, Municipal Affairs; Hon Minister Leal, Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; Hon Minister Ballard, Environment and Climate Change, Hon Minister Milczyn, Housing; Hon Minister Des Rosiers, Natural Resources and Forestry; Hon Deputy Premier Matthews

Thank you for your proposal to grow the Greenbelt to protect moraines, rivers, streams, wetlands, headwaters areas and ground water features across the Greater Golden Horseshoe (EBR # 013-1661). I fully support this initiative to safeguard the quality and quantity of our precious water supplies. Protecting our water from urban sprawl is vital to community health and resilience in the face of climate change and associated impacts such as flooding, drought and extreme weather events.

The government proposal needs to go further, however, to fully protect this Bluebelt within the boundaries of an expanded Greenbelt. Specifically, I would like to see the following areas added to the proposal for protection:

•	The headwaters of the Humber, Don and Rouge rivers;
•	Duffins and Carruthers creeks;
•	The south slope of the Oak Ridges Moraine and the Iroquois Shoreline along Lake Ontario in Northumberland County;
•	Luther Marsh;
•	The entirety of the Waterloo and Orangeville moraines in Wellington County;
•	Grand River watershed in Brant County; and
•	The remainder of the Lake Simcoe basin as well as vulnerable water resources in the rest of Simcoe County.

We simply cannot afford to pave over those landscape features which store, filter and supply our water. I urge you to proceed with your plans to grow the Greenbelt and to permanently safeguard critical water supplies, natural areas and prime farmland from urban sprawl.

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