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This new $10-billion 400-series freeway will upend 55 km of prime farmland & conservation land across the Toronto region. This superhighway is intended to unleash another generation of sprawl. Its proponents are land speculators. Our GreenBelt is at risk.
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‘According to real estate & construction experts, the plan is more than a highway proposal. It’s a bonanza for land speculators & builders.’ The table was recently set for this with the removal of protections on environmental wetlands, by stealth (in a Covid recovery bill.)
It is being pitched as an economic generator. But destroying long-term food production jobs for short-term construction jobs makes no sense. Farming and food processing employ almost a million people in the province and generate at least $35 billion in annual revenues.
