Comment to Matt Galloway, CBC Radio’s ‘The Current’ on Interviews with a Man Existing in Gaza and the Israeli Ambassador to Canada

Matt:

Thanks for your two interviews this morning; the one from a man enduring the very difficult existence in southern Gaza Strip.

The other interview was with Israel’s ambassador to Canada. 

Thanks for your questions asking for evidence for: Hamas people dressed as health workers at the latest hospital the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) just shut down in southern Gaza;  accusations that a dozen UNRWA workers were Hamas agents, resulting in Canada and the U.S. and others suspending necessary aid to Palestinians. Also asking for a response to accusations that IOF soldiers have raped and murdered innocent Palestinian women. The ambassador was either unable or unwilling to answer your questions which means he was lying by omission. He also would or could not answer your question about how the 1.4 million Palestinians trapped in Rafah will be looked after in a humanitarian way when the IOF attacks that crowded tent city. You did not ask him why the IOF has destroyed all means of survival including destructions of olive orchards, peoples’ gardens and the destruction of most of the Palestinian fishing boats, as well as almost all hospitals and universities. This looks to me and the world like a genocide and ethnic cleansing. These events are not helping the Israelis in public opinion as you tried to get the ambassador to comment on, but he wouldn’t. As for his suggestion that Hamas just needs to surrender and release hostages. Why would they? They are the resistance of an occupied people, (yes brutal and I don’t defend killing innocent people), of all Palestinians who have lived in a brutal and illegal occupation at least since 1967 and for Gazans trapped in a concentration camp for 17 years. Thanks again for your probing questions.

“Canada Doesn’t Meet Its NATO Obligations”, Says Who? – Comment to CBC-TV The National

Dear CBC The National:

My wife and I watched The National last evening – February 14. We were appalled at the two items – one regarding speculation about Russia’s claims to have a hypersonic missile that cannot be intercepted, which included scare talk from a U.S. legislator, just as a bill giving $95 billion of military aid to Ukraine and Israel is about to lose in the House of Representatives. So from this so-called reporting, we are supposed to be more afraid of the Russians and spend more to fight them. 

The other item with Murray Brewster looking serious had to do with NATO and Canada as a laggard because it doesn’t meet the 2% of GDP spending on war (not defence) supposedly required by NATO. Brewster suggested that Canada needs to step up and spend $18 billion more per year, beyond some $30 billion Canada already spends per year. 

It is ok to talk about such items but where was the criticism or other side of spending this much of Canada’s taxpayer money on more militarism. Adrienne made one final comment regarding how much the world spends on militarism – some $2 trillion. I find this appalling when we have before us every day the slaughter of innocents in Gaza by just this kind of military hardware. It is used all over the world in conflicts to kill innocent civilians. 

We don’t hate Russians or Chinese or Palestinians or anyone. Instead of increasing military spending the nations need to start to reduce such spending in a controlled way that builds trust. 

What would $18 billion/year do in Canada? It could end poverty and food insecurity and build affordable housing. It could build and keep in good repair public transit (we live in Toronto). 

So please when you talk about military spending, show how militaries are the biggest polluters and greenhouse gas emitters, more than many nations.

Our security is not going to be maintained by more terrible weapons that eventually each side buys, but by addressing the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis. You recently did stories on the coming extinction of migrating birds as well as a story about starving polar bears. Match these stories with how reducing military spending could help wildlife survive on our planet as well as us surviving. Thanks,

Message to Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford regarding the “Hands Off Rafah” March on Monday February 12, 2024

This message is in response to your comments making allegations that a public march demanding that Israeli forces not attack innocent and unprotected civilians in Rafah, Gaza Strip, deliberately targeted Mount Sinai Hospital, blocking doors etc. One of the organizers of the hastily organized march was interviewed on CBCTV The National last evening (Feb 13) and she said that the march was simply walking past all the hospitals on University Ave. on their way to the U.S. Consulate. She said there were no plans to target Mount Sinai in any way. I wasn’t there but I believe her. There was an individual carrying a Palestinian flag who acted like ‘Spiderman’, climbing some scaffolding. This also happened in a Montreal march recently. Please do not believe reports you receive from the Jewish Defence League (labelled a terrorist organization in Israel and the U.S.)  or any other right wing Jewish organizations that there was any anti-semitism intended. Most Ontarians, indeed most people in the world are in mourning at the ongoing killing of innocent people, women, children and non-combatant men who are having their homes or tents bombed while they are inside. Their hospitals have been assaulted and destroyed and doctors and hospital staffs arrested and even murdered along with all of their institutions such as schools and universities being destroyed. There are Palestinian Canadian families I know who are beside themselves knowing that their extended families in Gaza could be killed by bombs and bullets at any time.  Please acknowledge this in your statements. Please do not increase police presence and attacks on fellow Ontarians who are in mourning over the genocide taking place in the Gaza strip. That is what I am asking you to do.

I Am On My Fifth Hunger Strike Fast In Solidarity With Palestinians of Gaza

To: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Global Affairs Minister Melanie Joly
Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development Mary Ng
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, MP for Beaches-East York

Today I am on my fifth Hunger Strike Fast; doing one day per week. These fasts are in solidarity with the residents of Gaza who it is now clear are starving – Gazans now make up 80% of all people facing famine or catastrophic hunger worldwide. The most recent reports indicate that some Gazans are eating grass and drinking polluted water. This should not be allowed to continue.

Five of MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith’s constituents, all of us members of faith communities in Toronto, met with him this morning, February 1, to discuss with him our concerns regarding the terrible violence and outright killing of innocent men, women and children in Gaza. We talked mostly about how Canada is responding to the ICJ decision and its six orders that if followed would end some of the suffering in Gaza as well as Canada’s unfortunate decision to pause its funding of UNRWA due to a dozen out of thirty thousand workers who it is alleged assisted Hamas. We also called for an embargo on arms trade between Canada and Israel and the U.S. (because Canada makes mostly components many of which are assembled into weapons in the U.S. or israel)

So these are my thoughts/suggestions for peace in Israel/Palestinian and the world:

Ceasefire possibilities – including return of all hostages by both Hamas and Israel (Israel has several thousand Palestinian prisoners held on administrative detention with no charges by military court; many are teenagers who have been arrested for just hanging around). A permanent humanitarian ceasefire will save many lives. There are presently nearly 30,000 Palestinian civilian casualties with likely many more under rubble. A child is killed every ten minutes in Gaza.  

I am asking for more Canadian government involvement in supporting the ICJ case brought by South Africa and its decision that there is a plausible case for declaring a genocide in Gaza by Israeli forces. Canadian leaders talk a lot about the ‘Rules based order of Western democracies’ but seem to apply them differentially depending on who is being considered; this is hypocrisy. Israeli lawyers attended the hearing last Friday, January 26  in The Hague; they asked for a dismissal of charges. The court asked Israel to take steps to protect civilian lives in Gaza as well as to not destroy any evidence and to report back to the court in one month. It does seem that Israeli lawyers will return since the court was cautious about saying that a real genocide exists. 

I ask that Canada place an embargo on weapons trade to Israel.  Canada and the U.S. and other nations risk reputation damage by continuing to supply weapons to Israel when the ICJ says that there is ‘plausible genocide taking place there.

I ask that Canada in Parliament reverse its decision to stop financial support to The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.(UNRWA). Financial support to UNRWA has been suspended due to a dozen employees possibly supporting the Hamas massacre of Israeli soldiers and some civilians on October 7, 2023. UNRWA with thousands of workers and infrastructure on the ground in Gaza is best placed to continue food and material support for the starving people of Gaza. Cancelling support of UNRWA at the same time as the ICJ says that there is ‘plausible genocide’ being committed in Gaza looks like punishment for the ICJ decision – very poor optics. 

I support a two state solution given the animosity between Palestinians and Israeli’s now. Palestine should be allowed to create its own state by self determination without interference from Israel. The occupation by the IDF of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza (from outside) should end. 

I would ask that Canada create its own foreign policy and stop following the foreign policy of the U.S. which seems to be that all conflicts in the world are to be solved by bombing foreign militaries (like the Houthis in Yemen, who are pirating shipping in the Red Sea, bound from or to Israel ports, to demand a ceasefire in Gaza) )which includes large numbers of civilian casualties. Part of this would be to refuse to purchase high tech weapons from the U.S. as we are doing with the Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth bombers that have nothing to do with Canadian security and the recent purchase, again from the U.S. of Reaper Unmanned Drones with Hellfire missiles. Also where do combattant armies and militias as in Sudan, get all their military hardware/bombs etc. What is going on in the world when extremely poor nations can afford these weapons which are used primarily to kill and displace civilians? Who is benefitting? Certainly not the Sudanese. 

To ask that world leaders start acting like adults instead of like pre-kindergarten children. Even Kindergarten children learn not to hit other children and learn to share and put others before them. We have all kinds of research on how to mediate and reduce tensions between neighbours. Why don’t we use it in international matters? World leaders including in the West (Biden, Putin?) talk like they are only using their reptile brain. Why couldn’t NATO, meaning the U.S. – Biden, have listened to Putin when he asked for security for Russia by not having Ukraine be a member of NATO as well as not having nuclear missiles stationed on Ukrainian territory. Biden refused, not acknowledging that the Russian people suffered the most in WW2 as Germany tried to invade them.

I owe this to Paul Rogers, professor emeritus of Bradford University UK. The United States made a huge mistake after 911 by going to war against terrorism – a war in Afghanistan and then Iraq, instead of doing a police action to catch the Saudi actors who guided the planes into the twin towers etc. Bin Laden led them into a trap, realizing that the U.S. would react with violent revenge for Al Qaeda’s actions. The result after twenty years is millions of civilian deaths plus that Iraq and the whole middle East are unstable. Afghanistan which was ruled by the Taliban in 2001 has them restored as the rulers in 2021,having outlasted the West – NATO and the U.S. including Canada. Rogers also pointed out that Al Qaeda and ISIS control or cause trouble in large swaths across North Africa. Regime change in Libya by NATO (Canada participated) resulted in Libyan arms being released to extremist groups in North Africa. Rogers described his fear that Israel has fallen into the same trap, set for it by Hamas by the outrageous attack on Israelis on October 7. The State of Israel is now destroying itself in its revenge filled assault on everyone – women and children in Gaza. 

This is my hope and prayer: “He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.” Isaiah 2: 4 

I am on a Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Palestinian Gaza Residents

To: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Global Affairs Minister Melanie Joly
Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development Mary Ng
Nathaniel Erskine Smith, MP for Beaches-East York

Dear Prime Minister, Ministers and my MP:

Today I am on my fourth Hunger Strike Fast; doing one day per week. These fasts are in solidarity with the residents of Gaza who it is now clear are starving. This seems to be ok with Israeli authorities. Israeli Government and Military officials’ public statements have suggested a genocidal intent toward Palestinians who are the indigenous people of Palestine. Video’s released on social media in the past few days show some of the murderous actions against innocent Palestinian civilians. Yesterday I watched as a Palestinian man in Gaza was shot dead by an Israeli sniper immediately after he did a media interview, with friends at his side holding white flags. His concern in the interview was for relatives that were being confined in a building near them. I also saw young Israeli men blockading aid trucks with a wooden barrier. They were dancing and singing in front of the trucks at the gate. 

I and my church relate to two Gaza Palestinian families who were reunited in Canada in 2021. A campaign led by my friend Matthew Behrens succeeded in having fourteen families reunited in Canada with the husbands/fathers who were accepted as Convention Refugees by Canada in 2019. 

I thank you as representatives of the Canadian government for doing this. 

But the husband/father Mohammed who lives in Toronto received word last Friday, January 19 that his niece had been killed in Northern Gaza where she, her husband and three children under the age of 6 had moved to find some shelter. She was killed by flying debris from the bombing or shelling of the house next door. Her husband was injured but managed to cover the children with his body. The children are now in the care of Mohammed’s sister who is the childrens’ grandmother. But Mohammed told me that this family have only some rice to eat and no clean water to drink. This is one example out of perhaps a million or more of people who are starving in Gaza. 

My wife and I watched an interview by Adrian Arsenault on CBCTV’s The National, of a Canadian Eye Specialist who served for a week in Gaza in one of the remaining hospitals in the south. He showed video he took of hospital conditions. He said that the hospital is in chaos with adults, children and babies lying on floors. The sobering thing he said is that everyone is coughing – they have respiratory illnesses which are being caused by lack of nutrition as well as totally unsanitary conditions. There are also no medicines nor anesthetics. Amputations are done with no anesthetics – an atrocity in itself. I know that Diarhoea is also epidemic. 

We in Canada and the world are witnessing a genocide by starvation of more than two million people. The U.N. has said that Gaza represents the greatest number of people in the world now suffering from famine – in this case human caused. How long will my govenment stay silent? I know there has been a call for a permanent humanitarian ceasefire by members of the federal NDP. When will you demand the same? 

I am also calling on my government to create a better deal for the immigration of Gaza family members including my two Palestinian families, who wish to bring family members from certain death to live in Canada. Immigration Minister Miller’s plan for only one thousand Gazan family members to come to Canada is grossly inadeqate. And the families here will be unable to support bringing family members without the promise of more financial support. 

I also call on the Canadian government to stop any shipments of armaments or parts thereof from Canadian companies to Israel and the United States which then sends them on to Israel. Some MP’s have been writing to constituents that Canada does not send arms to Israel. I have seen documents that indicate that this is not true, and may be conflating that Canada’s military does not send weapons, but some Canadian companies surely do – in the $millions.

I recognize the trauma caused by the massacre of IDF members and civilians on October 7 by Hamas fighters but to keep on killing innocent women and children and non-combattant men is not a solution for a lasting peace with justice in Palestine and Israel. 

Please call for and give tangible support for a permanent humanitarian ceasefire with the return of all hostages, both Israeli and Palestinians who are being held, plus an end to all arms shipments to Israel. 

Today I am hungry but this is temporary for me. I have the choice to stay alive. Palestinians in Gaza do not. 

I Am On A Hunger Strike Fast for Palestinian Residents of Gaza

To: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Global Affairs Minister Melanie Joly
Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development Mary Ng
Nathaniel Erskine Smith, MP for Beaches-East York

Dear Prime Minister, Ministers and my MP:

Today I am on my third Hunger Strike fast in as many weeks to demand that my government carry out whatever is necessary to invoke a permanent humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, followed by negotiations to release hostages held by both Hamas and the Israeli government and negotiations to end the brutal decades long Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank that is the cause of so much strife. I am also calling on the Canadian government to pass legislation for an immediate embargo on the sale of Canadian manufactured weapons and their delivery to Israel or to the United States to be resent to Israel. Rachel Small of World Beyond War Canada told us today that Canada has already banned the sale of weapons in the past to Israel, Russia and several other countries, so this is not an unusual move for a Canadian government. 

I had opportunity today to attend a Gaza Starving Press Conference in downtown Toronto, attended by a few who are fasting today as well as organizers for Gaza Starving and some media. 

We heard from several speakers including a Canadian doctor who is a UN Rapporteur on Food and Medicines in Gaza, from Rachel Small of World Beyond War Canada, and two MP’s – Alexandre Boulerice, MP for Rosement -La Petite-Patrie and Niki Ashton, MP for Churchill-Keewatinook Aski, both of whom are fasting today on the Hunger Strike. We also heard from Dr. Tarek Loubani a Palestinian Canadian physician living in London, ON who has worked with his medical colleagues in Gaza over several years. In fact Dr. Loubani was shot in the lower legs while giving medical assistance to peaceful protestors of the ‘Great March of Return’ in 2018/2019. More than 200 young unarmed Palestinian men were shot to death as they approached ‘the Fence’ and several thousand sustained permanent injuries. 

MC Nadine Nasir pointed out that there are other MP’s fasting but could not yet release their names. She also mentioned that there are now well over one thousand Canadians who are fasting every week with a few fasting more than one day, even up to one month. Some of the things we learned from the speakers are that the medical system has been deliberately destroyed by the bombing of hospitals; the food system has been destroyed by having olive groves and gardens razed – flattened. Dr. Loubani said that 70 % of the Gaza fishing boats have been deliberately destroyed by IDF actions. Innocent women, children and non-combatant men are killed daily by bombing of homes where there is no place to shelter, resulting in 24 thousand deaths with 60 thousand wounded 10 thousand or more being children. Many uncounted lie beneath rubble. Amputations are done with no anaesthetic. More than 400 medical personnel including 100 doctors have been killed. We know already that at least 83 journalists working inside Gaza have been killed, many deliberately targeted by the IDF to prevent news from getting out. All of these actions represent ‘collective punishment’ which is a war crime. The deliberate starving of a population and the public verbal threats of doing so by Israeli government officials and IDF generals constitutes genocide. The pushing of people to the southern end of Gaza, near the Rafah Gate, looks more and more like Ethnic Cleansing. 

Isn’t this enough information for my government to demand an end to the slaughter and slow death of Palestinian residents of Gaza by starvation?

Today I am hungry but this is temporary for me. I have the choice to stay alive. Palestinians in Gaza do not. 

Exclusive: Canada’s top national security chiefs speak out, on CBC Radio’s The House, Saturday, June 23, 2023

Hello:

While I enjoy ‘The House’ immensely, this morning I wanted to throw the radio at the wall! Your program was about security and you left out the most important threat to Canadians – the Climate Crisis. The China influence is as nothing compared to the growing number of Canadians either being burned out or flooded out of their homes, not to speak of all the animals, plants and insects and birds that are dying. And our Boreal forest which is supposed to be a carbon sink is now contributing hugely to the CO2 atmosphere burden as well as making Canadians sick with breathing the smoke. Climate scientists have warned for many years that if we do not act decisively to reduce our fossil fuel burning, which is the cause of most greenhouse gas emissions, we run the risk of what is called ‘runaway global heating’ that we will be unable to do anything to control. Reported on CBCTV’s ‘The National’ is that the peat is on fire in northern Alberta. I fear that we are already at the tipping point because peat and permafrost contain so much carbon that is now being released into the atmosphere. I expect better of my tax paid for broadcaster. Why are you not telling us the real threat to Canadians’ security instead of a political molehill by comparison? Is it because our government is in such thrall to the fossil fuel companies, many of them foreign owned, that even our public broadcaster is afraid to tell us the truth?

Should we get off most social media – Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Twitter, Google?

My wife and I just read the book The Chaos Machine, The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World, by Max Fisher, 2022. Available at Toronto Public Library

Our question: Is it worth staying on and using so-called free social media for social justice and environmental purposes even if we are aware that the A.I. algorithms being applied to us are harmful to many of our neighbours and kids, even causing murder, and may destroy what is left of democracy and our civilization? 

In this book there are horror stories about how the algorithms of Facebook and You Tube in particular, which are really artificial intelligence machines, caused genocides in Myanmar including the killing of men, raping of women and burning of Rhohinga Muslim villages, driving the survivors out of Myanmar to crowded refugee camps in Bangladesh. Also false rumours that caused the Sinhalese to kill people and burn the villages of Muslim and other groups in Sri Lanka. The algorithms are designed by the engineers of these companies to keep a viewer’s eyes on the screen so that they are exposed to more ads. The algorithms will start someone on You Tube for example on a fairly innocent topic and then shove more and more extreme videos at them, called ‘going down the rabbit hole’. Viewers are also encouraged to join groups that become an ‘In Group’ that becomes violently opposed to an ‘Out Group’.

Many of the mass killings in the U.S. – of Black citizens in Buffalo and many others, and the 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand mosque attack where 50 worshippers were murdered, recorded on Facebook Live by the killer; the attack on the Quebec City Mosque. All were caused by men who went down the rabbit hole of hate online and then acted upon it. The anti-vaxxer movement, pre-Covid is an early result of this phenomenon, noticed by one of the researchers described in the book. This has also resulted in murders in Canada – the young man who drove his van into people, especially women on Yonge Street, Toronto belonged to an extreme online group. An extremist president of the U.S. is a likely result of the social media algorithms, a much more powerful force than Russian interference according to the authors. The Trucker Convoy in Canada and Qanon are other examples. Of course human misery and resentment are forces as well, but they are all amplified by the ‘algorithms’. Spoiler alert – the end of the book compares these A.I. algorithms to the HAL 9000 computer in the film 2001 Space Odyssey where the on board computer HAL in following his instructions from two different programmers begins to kill off the crew. The only solution was for the surviving crew to ‘unplug’ HAL. 

Where is Our High Speed Train?, Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor:

Where is our High Speed Train?
Defence Minister Anita Anand recently announced a long leaked purchase of 16 F35 Stealth bombers from U.S. weapons manufacturer Lockheed-Martin at a cost to Canadian taxpayers of $7 billion. This represents the first block of an eventual 88 F35’s at a predicted lifetime cost of more than $70 billion to be delivered by 2033. Ms. Anand said this purchase would help our security against countries such as Russia. What are Canadians getting for this huge expenditure? Not a defensive weapon, but an offensive one. A stealth bomber is designed to attack another country by stealth, meaning it can evade the radar of that country. It is capable of carrying a nuclear bomb, obviously to destroy infrastructure of that country. So the F35 is not about defending Canada. It burns fossil fuel at the rate of $48,000 per hour, the yearly salary of many front line health workers. It is a boondoggle, designed to satisfy our NATO obligations, likely to bomb coloured people and their homes somewhere in the world as was done by the older CF18’s in the former Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, and Syria. 
What tangible benefit will Canadians get for this expenditure? Why are we sending our tax dollars to a U.S. weapons manufacturer instead of keeping this revenue at home? Why not use it to end homelessness and lack of housing once and for all. Why not use it to increase disabled benefits to a living wage? Why not use it to end food insecurity? And why not spend it to build the high speed train between Windsor, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City which has been studied for decades? Why not ask Canadians what they want $70+ billion spent on?

Osprey and Otter Have a Message for Premier Ford

Dear Premier Ford, 

Please read the article at the attachment. It points out how important Southern Ontario’s remaining wetlands are to animals, birds and other wildlife and also how important wetlands are to us as cleaners of water and places that can absorb high rainfall that we are receiving due to climate change, causing flooding of our basements. 

This statement is made in the article, “Osprey and Otter know many things that our provincial government would rather not know. One of those is that the value of a specific parcel of wetland can’t be judged in isolation. Many wetland mammals, fish and birds – even the non-migratory ones – need a complex of wetlands to stay healthy.” 

Yes, wetlands exist in systems that animals and birds move back and forth between. You cannot remove part of the system and have these birds and animals continue to live. We humans are causing the largest extinction of life since the dinosaurs left us 65 million years ago. COP 15, the UN Biodiversity Conference is going on in Montreal right now. The international delegates are trying to come to grips with saving up to 30% of the Earth’s surface for nature. We must do this to survive as humans. 

I am afraid that your government’s removal of the long time protections of wetlands and old growth forests by the construction of highways through natural areas, such as #413 and the Bradford Bypass as well as allowing the building of mansions on the Greenbelt, will cause the extinction of many animals that we need in order to keep our ecosystems intact. 

Premier Ford, I know that you love your cottage in Muskoka due to its natural surroundings. Please extend this love to our other natural areas such as wetlands and still intact forests. We are going to need these valuable assets as our weather becomes more extreme. 

Premier Ford my 12 grandchildren all live in Southern Ontario plus Ottawa. Their world will be greatly diminished and their lives even endangered by your government’s plans to remove protections from wetlands plus the removal of Conservation Authorities’ ability to advise municipalities, and protect these valuable assets. 

My wife and I are also long time contributing members of the Bruce Trail Conservancy and we have hiked much of the trail between Queenston and Tobermory along our magnificent Niagara Escarpment, a UN Biosphere Reserve. The Bruce Trail Conservancy has made public statements that the loss of protections from development for natural lands and features along the escarpment may cause the end of the continuous Bruce Trail that so many Ontarians and international hikers love so much. 

Please, you cannot allow the development and destruction of these lands and animals and birds that raise our spirits so much. Our grandchildren deserve to enjoy natural lands that are close by as much as we have. 

Premier Ford, please listen and repeal the legislated items that are going to remove development protections from our wonderful valuable natural assets. 

I am in favour of affordable housing for all, but it must be built within the boundaries of our cities and municipalities. Even your own task Force said there was no need to develop the Greenbelt. 

Please listen to our biologists, geographers, watershed scientists, urban planners and your thoughtful citizens. Do not remove protections from our remaining wetlands, intact forests and other natural features in Southern Ontario. If you do this, history will be kind to you as opposed to how you will be thought of if you push on with the unnecessary development of our natural treasures. We are counting on you to do the right thing!

https://anoutsidechance.com/2022/11/30/osprey-and-otter-have-a-message-for-ford/

Osprey and Otter have a message for Ford

Osprey and Otter have a message for Ford

Osprey and Otter have a message for Ford

URL https://anoutsidechance.com/2022/11/30/osprey-and-otter-have-a-message-for-ford/

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