| # | Name (first and last names, please) | Comments |
|---|
| 401 | Anonymous | The citizens of Ontario want to ensure the
protection of our farmland and the lives of our
farmers. |
| 402 | Anonymous | NO,NO,NO this is terrible. We need this land for the future of our children and their children. Find another way!!!! |
| 403 | Ann Elizabeth Carson | What lunacy is this to pave over prime agriculture land and wildlife habitat |
| 404 | Melissa Hahn | |
| 405 | Jen Chapman | |
| 406 | Krista Vasiga | |
| 407 | Susan Feldman | |
| 408 | Susan Feldman | |
| 409 | Lily S. May | |
| 410 | Wendy McCaul | |
| 411 | Trisha Muldoon | Once you pave over it, you can never get that land back! What an inconsiderate and appalling idea. There may be few ideas to solve the expanision of the highway, but this is definitely NOT THE SOLUTION. |
| 412 | Matthew Duffy | |
| 413 | melanie robitaille | |
| 414 | Ross Mueller | I have heard of some stupid ideas in my time but this beats all. Where are you in such a rush to get to anyway - the beach. I would rather eat than travel faster. |
| 415 | Stewart Hilts | On behalf of the Ontario Farmland Trust, I agree that protecting high quality farmland must be given higher priority in highway routing decisions. Letting people slow down and modifying existing roads is by far the more appropriate solution. |
| 416 | Sarah Visheau | |
| 417 | Anna Michener | As a relatively new resident of the area, I have been thrilled with the availability local food. I travel the highway 7/8 corridor quite frequently and have absolutely no problem with the road as it is. In light of the challenges our communities are facing in terms of high oil prices and food contamination scares I do not want my access to local food growers compromised in any way.
Sincerely,
Anna Michener |
| 418 | Catherine Grandison | |
| 419 | Michelle Dinnick | Canada needs more farm land!!!! Not less!! |
| 420 | Susan Joyce | Our farmlands are rapidly being gobbled up by housing and highways, when it should be our most important resource. It is a travesty to see valuable farmland paved over, when it provides our most fundamental of needs... not to mention a host of other benefits. We should be encouraging local economies and discouraging use of automobiles in the present world we live in. |
| 421 | Anonymous | |
| 422 | Christopher Martin | |
| 423 | Penina Coopersmith | Time to start thinking about alternatives to building more and more highways. Areas like Stratford would benefit from much better train service throughout southeastern Ontario. We need agricultural land for agriculture, and trains to move goods and people. |
| 424 | Betty Cullen | Farmers are the most important people in our community, the local people who choose to grow our food, and they should have, and deserve, every help and appreciation in doing this valuable work. Instead, they often have to fight an up-hill battle to survive. We must support out own farmers, instead of relying on imported food, which could cease to arrive in times of crisis. Church Hill Farm and its family, and other farms like it, must be preserved from the encroachemnt of urbanization, the bulding of roads, etc. There will never be any more good, agricultural land. |
| 425 | Gloria Kagawa | |
| 426 | sheila perkin | |
| 427 | Stacey McCormick | |
| 428 | Natalie Seip | They should take more cars off the road instead of making more roads! We need farms and land more than transportation routes! |
| 429 | Kurt Krumme | I think that short-sighted policies like paving-over farmland harm us all, and show a real lack of leadership from our elected officials. |
| 430 | Cheryl Buchwald | |
| 431 | Shannon Fitzgerald | I read the letter written by Max Lass in the Fall 2008 Edible Toronto. Good Luck with your fight to save your farm. |
| 432 | Anonymous | |
| 433 | Anonymous | |
| 434 | Mark Kenny | Pave the way to better local food production, not more roads for non-renewable resource dependent cars! |
| 435 | Dale Melnick | |
| 436 | Stacey Cline | |
| 437 | paul steinburg | |
| 438 | Julietta Gabriel | Very much licked the earlier article. So much I, a city-person, do not know about the basics of food and agriculture. You are doing great, albeit quiet things and my thoughts are with you.
Best,
j. |
| 439 | Anonymous | |
| 440 | Dominica Woollings | |
| 441 | Maki Hatashita | |
| 442 | Caroline Misek-Brandt | |
| 443 | Carolyn Gregoire | |
| 444 | Linda Larwill | |
| 445 | Anonymous | We must be proactive and forward-thinking, rather than reactive, and work to reduce the number of single occupant vehicles on the road by promoting Transportation Demand Management strategies (i.e. carpooling through www.carpooltool.com, carsharing through Grand River CarShare and other carshare organizations, increased VIA Rail service to and from Stratford, flexible work weeks, telecommuting, etc.). Oil is a finite polluting non-renewable resource! |
| 446 | Bill Froelich | |
| 447 | Linda Burnside | I believe it is important to support our farmers, the folks who provide us with food in a sustainable manner and steward the land. We need to be more thoughtful, conscious and caring about where we are "driving" our future. |
| 448 | Adrienne Comrie | |
| 449 | Maria Nunes | |
| 450 | Jean Kim | |