<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Good morning,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A quick reminder that today is the deadline for submissions and comments to the provincial government’s consultation on growing the Greenbelt along the Paris-Galt moraine.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The broad consensus from environmental groups across Ontario is that the government needs to be far more ambitious with the expansion and include many other areas currently facing threats and developmental pressures - particularly other parts of the Grand River Watershed and areas such as Simcoe County and Dufferin County. We also need to ensure that Greenbelt expansion doesn’t damage our local Protected Countryside, Countryside Line, and Environmentally Sensitive Landscape protections.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please make sure that your voice is heard and that Doug Ford receives a strong message. GREN has signed on to several joint submissions such as the one lead by Ontario Nature attached below. We will also be sending our own submission later today reinforcing the concerns raised by Region of Waterloo Staff about ensuring that Greenbelt policies don’t weaken or erode our stronger local protections already in place.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To learn more or submit your own comments to the government please visit the Environmental Registry of Ontario website at:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-3136" class="">https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-3136</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Simply click the blue button on the left side of the ERO page to type or upload your comments/feedback.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you are short of time or are seeking a faster alternative, our neighbours at the Guelph Moraine West Greenbelt Coalition have created a great automated form letter than will automatically send your comments to provincial staff, your MPP, and Minister Clark:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://partner-wellingtonwaterwatchers.nationbuilder.com/greenbelt-ero019-3136#newmode-embed-732-34519" class="">https://partner-wellingtonwaterwatchers.nationbuilder.com/greenbelt-ero019-3136#newmode-embed-732-34519</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However you submit your feedback you should consider sending your comments to local officials, MPP’s, and the Premier too. Contact information can be found in the document attached below. Additional information, background, other submissions, and resources on the provincial Greenbelt can also be found at the bottom of this e-mail.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please take a few minutes today to make sure that you have spoken up for our environment and the generations of protection that an expanded Greenbelt could bring.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">Kevin.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">1) Ontario Nature Joint Submission on Greenbelt Expansion</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></body></html>