Protecting our Future
Ontario has some of the best farmland in the world which drives our $50 billion food and farming economy – but the Ford government wants to pave it over. It’s not just our farmland that’s at risk.
The Ford government has also stripped protections for our wetlands and other natural areas that make our province special. Greens will protect our farms, forests and wetlands.
- Prohibit 400 series highways in the Greenbelt, starting with canceling HW 413 and the Bradford Bypass.
- Expand the Greenbelt to include a Bluebelt of protected waterways.
- Reverse the Ford government’s attack on Conservation Authorities, EAs, wetland and species protection.
- Create an Ontario Foodbelt to permanently protect prime farmland from being lost to non-agricultural uses, such as urban sprawl, highways, and gravel mining.