Ottawa has an obligation to protect the Greenbelt. The federal government needs to protect the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve and include it within Rouge park boundaries. Opinion by former Toronto mayor David Crombie
It’s good news that federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault has signalled that he may step in to fight for Ontario’s Greenbelt.
DRAP represents nearly 70 per cent of the 7,400 acres the Ford government has stripped from the Greenbelt after repeated promises never to do so. The farmland and ecological values of DRAP include abundant Class 1 farmland, lands classified as Natural Heritage that cover more than 41 per cent of the area and additional lands classified for potential ecological restoration and connectivity covering 17 per cent.
Second, Species at Risk introductions in the DRAP by Parks Canada would be compromised, as would the viability of dozens of other Species at Risk.
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