
<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="">Hi folks,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A very interesting Editorial from the Waterloo Record newspaper pretty much coming out opposed to Greenbelt expansion by the Ford government.  It raises many good points.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Of course the easy answer to address this is to simply ensure that the strongest of either provincial or regional protections applies and then we have the best of both world’s.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/opinion/editorials/2021/02/26/beware-premier-when-hes-bearing-greenbelt-gifts.html" class="">https://www.therecord.com/opinion/editorials/2021/02/26/beware-premier-when-hes-bearing-greenbelt-gifts.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’ll have to figure out how best to proceed in the days ahead.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Kevin.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="c-article-header" data-lpos="article|header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Merriweather Sans", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"><div class="c-article-header__mainart mainart-container mainart-landscape" data-lpos="article|multimedia" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 48px -14.5vw; padding: 0px; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 4; order: 3; width: 100vw;"><div class="image pure-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 999px;"><div class="white-background image__body" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; position: relative;"><img srcset="https://images.thestar.com/C_3HerquagN2RwN6Fw-kRKggJO4=/1086x1039/smart/filters:cb(1614450422052)/https://www.therecord.com/content/dam/therecord/opinion/editorials/2021/02/26/beware-premier-when-hes-bearing-greenbelt-gifts/feb20_21.jpg 1086w, https://images.thestar.com/AwY-_2FqyuxlHNNdbh5k_C6aPTQ=/968x926/smart/filters:cb(1614450422052)/https://www.therecord.com/content/dam/therecord/opinion/editorials/2021/02/26/beware-premier-when-hes-bearing-greenbelt-gifts/feb20_21.jpg 968w, https://images.thestar.com/i0gzqIgvMXC0l_xX8GGa6UtfN20=/850x813/smart/filters:cb(1614450422052)/https://www.therecord.com/content/dam/therecord/opinion/editorials/2021/02/26/beware-premier-when-hes-bearing-greenbelt-gifts/feb20_21.jpg 850w, https://images.thestar.com/r0ypxKMXyiUy4hb36ZU73GDZC50=/650x622/smart/filters:cb(1614450422052)/https://www.therecord.com/content/dam/therecord/opinion/editorials/2021/02/26/beware-premier-when-hes-bearing-greenbelt-gifts/feb20_21.jpg 650w, https://images.thestar.com/weqUqaK4iM4u1Rh8O8okmOnCPl8=/605x579/smart/filters:cb(1614450422052)/https://www.therecord.com/content/dam/therecord/opinion/editorials/2021/02/26/beware-premier-when-hes-bearing-greenbelt-gifts/feb20_21.jpg 605w, https://images.thestar.com/tvBmrLU6YCRfd2l-dg2icdJ1pv8=/480x459/smart/filters:cb(1614450422052)/https://www.therecord.com/content/dam/therecord/opinion/editorials/2021/02/26/beware-premier-when-hes-bearing-greenbelt-gifts/feb20_21.jpg 480w, https://images.thestar.com/F7WdvB4JNxclJMYn0SqpWADSX5A=/400x383/smart/filters:cb(1614450422052)/https://www.therecord.com/content/dam/therecord/opinion/editorials/2021/02/26/beware-premier-when-hes-bearing-greenbelt-gifts/feb20_21.jpg 400w, https://images.thestar.com/IWq4rrytG0OBn1K-6-mEiNh-SpI=/320x306/smart/filters:cb(1614450422052)/https://www.therecord.com/content/dam/therecord/opinion/editorials/2021/02/26/beware-premier-when-hes-bearing-greenbelt-gifts/feb20_21.jpg 320w" alt="The Progressive Conservatives are moving ahead to build the Highway 413 megaproject that would pave over thousands of hectares of untouched farmland and natural spaces. And take note: Part of that highway would be built over some of the existing Greenbelt." style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;" apple-inline="yes" id="93AE42AE-1A9A-407E-ABD7-60885C5BA751" src="cid:8AC8E2BA-B2E6-4AF6-814C-26ACE987C8B7" class=""></div><div class="caption-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: -0.3px; min-height: 80px; width: 1044px;"><button type="button" class="alcta caption-button" data-alparams="{"ltype":"pageaction","ctype":"expand","label":"caption", "position": "undefined"" aria-label="Show Caption" style="c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s out to threaten the local environment, we say do what is necessary.</p><div id="fsk_splitbox_2804_onscreen" class=" fsk_splitbox_2804_onscreen sb-opened" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 602px;"><div id="fsk_splitbox_2804" class=" fsk_splitbox_2804 sb-opened" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 602px; height: 349.2022471910112px; text-align: center; width: 602px;"><iframe name="fsk_frame_splitbox" id="fsk_frame_splitbox" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 602px; height: 0px; border-style: none; margin: 0px;" class=""></iframe></div></div><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 2rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Whatever Ford’s intentions, this region is already doing much of the heavy lifting when it comes to preserving its green spaces. It imposed hard boundaries on the region’s three cities to prevent sprawl. Its $1-billion light rail system was built largely to direct new development into urban cores, not outward into the countryside. </p><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 2rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">It’s no idle boast that the regional government has maximum protections in place for the groundwater supply, on which local residents depend so heavily for their own needs. And regional policies already guard the portion of the Paris-Galt Moraine that lies within this municipality. </p><span id="contentMiddleBreakPoint" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;" class=""></span><div class="undefined seo-media-query" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a tabindex="0" class="css-1eqpjzk c-button--secondary c-button" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: inherit; color: rgb(0, 114, 188); cursor: pointer; -webkit-appearance: none; display: block; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-size: 0.875rem; border-top-left-radius: 0.3125rem; border-top-right-radius: 0.3125rem; border-bottom-right-radius: 0.3125rem; border-bottom-left-radius: 0.3125rem; width: auto; border: 0.125rem solid rgb(0, 114, 188); padding: 0.3125rem; margin: 0px; text-align: center; position: absolute; transform: translateY(100%); clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden; text-transform: uppercase;">SKIP ADVERTISEMENT</a><div class="article-content-ad c-googleadslot--300x250 c-googleadslot" data-lpos="gamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; width: 741.25px; text-align: center;"><div class="c-googleadslot__wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 14px 14px; display: inline-block; background-color: rgb(236, 235, 236);"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-size: 10px; line-height: 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(104, 104, 104); letter-spacing: 0.6px;" class="">ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW</div><div id="div-gpt-ad-medium-opinion-editorials-3" class="ArticleSecondBigBox" data-google-query-id="CI642uLyiu8CFUr5wAodjKIMJw" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-width: 300px; min-height: 250px; height: 250px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_58580620/the_record/opinion/editorials_2__container__" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none;" class=""><iframe id="google_ads_iframe_58580620/the_record/opinion/editorials_2" title="Advertisement" name="google_ads_iframe_58580620/the_record/opinion/editorials_2" width="300" height="250" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" data-google-container-id="3" data-load-complete="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" class=""></iframe></div></div></div></div><a tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(0, 101, 164);" class=""></a></div><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 2rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">That’s crucial because 15 per cent of regional drinking-water wells draw from this moraine, a long ridge created by ancient glaciers. Also important are the stringent regional rules governing local gravel extraction, an activity that, unchecked, can threaten groundwater supplies.</p><div class="article-related-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px -88px; padding: 0px;"><div class="c-related-articles" data-lpos="ymbii|1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 12px 16px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 0px 2px 8px 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 0px 2px 8px 0px;"><h2 class="article-list-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="article-list-heading-text article-list-heading-text--small" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 8px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 0.75rem;">YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...</div></h2><div class="rec_web_ymbii c-related-articles-inline__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;"><a href="https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2021/02/25/outbreak-strikes-waterloo-retirement-home-where-vaccinations-were-delayed.html?li_source=LI&li_medium=rec_web_ymbii" class="c-mediacard--large-only-row c-mediacard--medium-only-row c-mediacard--row c-mediacard c-mediacard--small-only-row c-related-articles__article" data-test-id="mediacard" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 101, 164); display: flex; position: relative; width: 779.25px; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(194, 194, 194);"><div class="c-mediacard-img--aspect-ratio-3x2-condensed c-mediacard-img c-mediacard-img--small-only-row c-mediacard-img--large-only-row c-mediacard-img--row c-mediacard__image-wrapper c-mediacard-img--medium-only-row" data-test-id="medicard-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 2; order: 1; width: 90px; min-width: 90px;"><div class="c-mediacard-img-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 59.390625px 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img alt="Outbreak strikes Waterloo retirement home where vaccinations were delayed" data-test-id="medicard-image" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px;" apple-inline="yes" id="35E11FE2-A9BB-4C94-9DFB-A70113FD87F7" src="cid:572EB515-062A-4E3E-AF58-04EDC81AACD4" class=""></div></div><div class="c-mediacard__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: start; align-items: flex-start; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 auto; width: 673.25px; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; order: 0;"><div class="c-mediacard-labels c-mediacard__labels" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%;"><span class="c-mediacard-labels__label c-mediacard-labels__label--section" data-test-id="label-section" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid transparent; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.625rem; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 1rem; margin-bottom: 4px; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); margin-right: 8px;">WATERLOO REGION</span></div><h3 class="c-mediacard__heading mediacard-headline__long" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; font-size: 1.125rem; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; width: 673.25px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-family: TorstarDeckCondensed, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; line-height: 1.25;"><span data-test-id="mediacard-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Outbreak strikes Waterloo retirement home where vaccinations were delayed</span></h3><div class="c-mediacard-footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; width: 673.25px; min-height: 24px; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;"><div class="c-mediacard-footer__items-left" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;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line-height: 2rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">To anyone who suggests these Greenbelt worries are off base, we’d say look at Ford’s own dubious environmental track record. </p><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 2rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">He’s the premier who cut money and power out of the province’s conservation authorities — including the Grand River Conservation Authority. On his watch, the province increasingly uses Ministerial Zoning Orders to fast track environmentally unsound developments.</p><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 2rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Now the Progressive Conservatives are moving ahead to build the Highway 413 megaproject that would pave over thousands of hectares of untouched farmland and natural spaces. And take note: Part of that highway would be built over some of the existing Greenbelt.</p><div class="article-related-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px -88px; padding: 0px;"></div><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 2rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">With all this in mind, here’s the key question for the people of Waterloo Region: Would expanding the Greenbelt provide stronger or weaker protection for a large swath of land that runs through the east side of this region? We need to find out.</p><div class="article-related-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px -88px; padding: 0px;"><div class="c-related-articles" data-lpos="ymbii|2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 12px 16px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 0px 2px 8px 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 0px 2px 8px 0px;"><h2 class="article-list-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="article-list-heading-text article-list-heading-text--small" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 8px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 0.75rem;">YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...</div></h2><div class="rec_web_ymbii c-related-articles-inline__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;"><a href="https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2021/02/25/after-waste-management-truck-involved-in-second-kitchener-pedestrian-death-family-of-first-victim-speaks-out.html?li_source=LI&li_medium=rec_web_ymbii" class="c-mediacard--large-only-row c-mediacard--medium-only-row c-mediacard--row c-mediacard c-mediacard--small-only-row c-related-articles__article" data-test-id="mediacard" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 101, 164); display: flex; position: relative; width: 779.25px; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(194, 194, 194);"><div class="c-mediacard-img--aspect-ratio-3x2-condensed c-mediacard-img c-mediacard-img--small-only-row c-mediacard-img--large-only-row c-mediacard-img--row c-mediacard__image-wrapper c-mediacard-img--medium-only-row" data-test-id="medicard-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 2; order: 1; width: 90px; min-width: 90px;"><div class="c-mediacard-img-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 59.390625px 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img alt="After waste management truck involved in second Kitchener pedestrian death, family of first victim speaks out" data-test-id="medicard-image" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; display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