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Support better protection of our ravines from their headwaters in the Greenbelt to Lake Ontario!

Earlier in 2015, the Province began a 10 year review of the Greenbelt legislation, which protects over 1.8 million acres of farmland, forests, wetlands, lakes, streams and hiking trails surrounding the Greater Toronto Area. After 6 months of consultations, an Advisory Committee released their report that recommends the Province grow the Greenbelt along significant waterways, including urban river valleys!

We need the Provincial Government to follow these recommendations. Please send an email to the Premier of Ontario and the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (who is responsible for this Review) using the form below. Let them know you support the Province taking the lead in protecting important waterways and urban river valleys by adding them to the Greenbelt. You can also edit the text to include additional comments.

The Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario
 The Honourable Ted McMeekin, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
 Dear Premier Wynne and Minister McMeekin,
As a Toronto resident, I support the recommendations by the Coordinated Land Use Planning Advisory Committee for the Province to grow the Greenbelt into waterways and urban river valleys (URVs). Here is why:
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<li>Toronto’s ravines don’t begin and end in the Greenbelt. They start in the headwaters of the Greenbelt and flow through multiple municipalities before ending at Lake Ontario. We need the Province to protect these precious waterways -including urban river valleys- by making them part of the Greenbelt. This will ensure Toronto’s ravines are healthier and better protected.</li>
<li> The Greenbelt currently contains 533,000 acres of lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands. They are part of larger watersheds that collectively provide Ontarians with huge economic, social and environmental benefits.Greenbelt protection must extend to these larger watersheds to ensure this vital natural “green infrastructure” is ready to deal with the threats climate change will bring.</li>
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This is why I urge you to act on the recommendations of the Coordinated Land Use Planning Review Advisory Committee, led by David Crombie, that call on the Province to grow the Greenbelt along significant waterways including headwaters of major rivers, moraines, groundwater recharge areas, and urban river valleys in municipalities like Toronto.
I also urge you to move quickly and add the URV lands during the Coordinated Review Process.
It’s time for the Province to follow the Advisory Committee’s recommendations. Add additional significant waterways -including urban river valleys- to Ontario’s Greenbelt as quickly as possible.
Sincerely,

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