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Grey Bruce Health Coalition stressed how important small rural hospitals are to saving lives, particularly when so many don't have a family doctor. Brenda Scott, who co-chairs the coalition's small and rural hospital caucus, worries frequent emergency department closures at small hospitals like Chesley's threatens the entire hospital's future.

The Ford government has defended removing parts of the Greenbelt to help meet the target of building 1.5 million new homes by 2031. But the provincial housing affordability task force has said there's already enough land outside of that protected area to do that.

Last month, Ontario's auditor general and the integrity commissioner found the housing minister's chief of staff, Ryan Amato, favoured certain developers over others when selecting which lands would come out of the Greenbelt.

Amato resigned in August while saying he did nothing wrong. The housing minister, Steve Clark, resigned a few days after the integrity commissioner's report was released.

Ford has admitted the process was flawed, and has accepted the auditor's recommendations on procedural changes. The new housing minister, Paul Calandra, said a Greenbelt could see more protected lands added or removed.

Last year, the province took 7,400 acres of land in 15 sections out of the Greenbelt to build 50,000 homes and replaced it with about 9,400 acres elsewhere.

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