<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 John,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">No worries. I’ve been swamped or I would have gotten it to you several days in advance rather than one day in advance. Good feedback. I have been reworking things based on Greg’s feedback too. We actually have until midnight tonight to get something in so I will simplify things and see what I can come up with. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Kevin.<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 19, 2021, at 1:51 PM, John Jackson <<a href="mailto:jjackson@web.ca" class="">jjackson@web.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Kevin<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sorry about it being this late getting back to you for something due at 5 today. I didn't get a chance to read until an hour ago. The latter part of April my mind is only on my class marking and commenting on their major research papers and keeping on top of the final exams.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway, I just read it and don't feel satisfied with it. We have already signed onto the group submission that you sent out this morning.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I think that this submission should be focused down to our major point, which is the answer to question 5 where you talk of the need to revise the Greenbelt plans to encourage municipalities to exceed the requirements in the Greenbelt. The way it now stands, that gets lost because it is buried so far down in the letter.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Being as we are part of the full joint submission, I think we should just keep our separate letter short and sweet with our main point, which you now have under question 5. and with a sentence saying that we endorse the joint commission.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, the letter you sent us looks like an old letter because it has our old logo and because my signature at the end is followed by "past-president" which doesn't make us look very functional.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 18, 2021, at 10:19 PM, Kevin Thomason <<a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com" class="">kevinthomason@mac.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi GREN Executive,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please find attached a draft submission for the Provincial Greenbelt consultation. It is heavily based on recommended submissions/answers to the provincial questions provided by the Ontario Greenbelt Alliance, Ontario Nature, the Guelph Greenbelt West Coalition, and the Ontario Headwaters Institute. I have also leveraged previous GREN submissions in 2015, 2017 and 2018.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John, you had signed previous submissions as Chair, so I have listed you as Past-Chair for this one. If you are uncomfortable with this I can submit it under my own name and Vice-Chair title, or we can remove any particular person and submit it simply under the GREN banner.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please look it over and let me know any feedback, thoughts, omissions, concerns, ideas, etc. The deadline for submission is tomorrow (Monday) at 11:59pm and I hope to get it submitted before the end of the work day at 5:00pm.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Kevin.<br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""></div></div></div><span id="cid:CBBEF333-673D-4C9F-9630-3D1606DB41E9@hitronhub.home" class=""><GREN Provincial Grow the Greenbelt Consultation v1.docx></span><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
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