The idea that our great nation is still protecting thousands of acres of farmland inside of our beautiful and important city is beyond ridiculous and pathetic. And I will keep saying that until either it has finally been corrected or every single person in Canada has heard about my dismay and confusion. If this farmland was still pristine forests and meadows as it was only two hundred years ago I would be thrilled to preserve it forever. But why they consider this land to be sacred while they allow other farmland far outside of our city core to be decimated in the name of more housing is mind boggling stupid and I am finally making some headway in getting more people to understand this obvious fact.

Most people in Ottawa had never heard of The Ontario Greenbelt until it made the news with Doug Ford trying to allow some of the protected propery in that greenbelt to be developed that some of his rich friends owned. They would have profited many millions as a result. Doug deserves more grief than he has got so far over this scandal. The idea that such large scale corruption is happening in our society is frustrating and disgusting. It was all halted fortunately and no illicit profits made but an unsuccessful attempt at a bank robbery is still against the law. We would like to think.

The Ontario Greenbelt surrounds Toronto, but is far outside of the city core and is vast in its scope. It is recognized as a good proper urban greenbelt. Our Ottawa Greenbelt is a pathetic sad little joke in comparison. But since it is mostly owned and completely under the control of the NCC it is set in stone almost. I am going to keep trying to smash that dumb stone to dust.

After amalgamation the city of Ottawa became huge geographically. I am now suggesting that we/Ottawa create a large proper greenbelt modelled after the Ontario Greenbelt. No expropriation of land is necessary like the NCC did for the Ottawa one. We certainly don't need or want the NCC to participate in any way. We can get the other levels of government involved and take the steps to outline a new greenbelt that will protect the farms of Osgoode and the other rural wards for generations to come. Therefore forcing the city of Ottawa to grow from within and up. Including of course using some of the old dumb greenbelt in the ways I have outlined.

This would be the perfect way to counteract the stupidity and short sightedness of the tiny greenbelt that we now have. I will never understand why so many people in Ottawa don't understand how dumb and embarrassing our greenbelt is in its current form. But the whole world is crazy and we as a people seem to be totally out of control crazy and dumb and self-destructive. I hope to continue to counteract that insanity a little bit. I hope you will join me in this journey of mine of love and hope and good sense for all.

My Greenbelt Video

This video is eight years old but only out of date in a couple of ways. Filomena Tassi is the current Federal Cabinet Minister in charge of The NCC, not Melanie Joly. And there has been much more housing development far outside of the greenbelt, obviously.