Les milieux humides et délimitation des peuplements a l’intérieur forêt Fairview

I agree with this brief and I support the full conservation of the Fairview Forest.

I fully support this brief in its entirety. A fully conserved Fairview Forest is a massive investment in the future of Pointe-Claire and the island of Montreal more generally.

All too few forests are left on the island of Montreal. We need to preserve and protect all that are left

This forest is more impactful than most of us realize and will only grow more important in the coming years as climate change takes hold.

I support the conservation of the entire forest because of its inestimable value to the community now and for future generations, as well as for the precious wildlife.

On ne peut plus faire de compromis en faveur du développement. C'est impérial de sauver la forêt dans toute son integrité. Des mesures d'atténuation ne sont pas suffisante. Ça prendra des dizaines d'années avant que des nouvelles plantations reforme l'habitat qui est en place maintenant. Et pendant ces dizaines d'années y aura d'autres gens qui feront d'autres compromis et enleverons d'autres éléments a a foret avant même qu'elle puisse se régénérer.

Thank you Normand Lapointe for making this submission, and thank you CMM for this consultation and your PMADR. I think it is worth reflecting on the perfect alignment of the CMM's proposed goals and objectives with saving the Fairview Forest in Pointe-Claire. In doing so, it becomes so obvious how opposed to these aims the Cadillac Fairview corporation has been, and how obstructionist the city of Pointe-Claire has been on this issue of critical importance threatening the city with more loss of greenspace and quality of life. Hopefully, Pointe-Claire's city council can change course, and I hope the CMM can use tools to compel the city to act more in line with the PMAD before it is too late. The PMADR has made so many good points that show why Fairview Forest must be saved. I am so impressed by it. The PMADR has three top goals it wants addresses and one of these is the environment. It says "The PPMADR is resolutely under the side of sustainable development as well as the fight against and adaptation to climate change and the protection of biodiversity." According to the PMADR the aims of sustainable development, the fight against climate change, and the protection of biodiversity are requirements of the CMM UNDER THE LAW. With 35 or so vulnerable, endangered, or at risk species of birds, animals and flora in Fairview Forest it is obvious we must protect it from being bulldozed and replaced by more thoughtless but privately profitable concrete. I am very concerned that the "Compliance process". It dictates that the SADs of the RCMs or agglomerations must comply with the PMAD. Is this powerful enough and enforceable before destruction of the last unprotected forest and only one in the vicinity of citizens in the north of Pointe-Claire. The LAU provides that this metropolitan plan must be reviewed periodically. Will this be done before or after Fairview Forest is destroyed by the developer Cadillac Fairview? Will the Declaration of Climate Emergency adopted by the CMM Council in 2018 be respected and enforced? Will the Montreal Declaration on Metropolitan Areas which the PMADR is to fullfill be respected? Or is it all too late because the city of Pointe-Claire's City Council and Cadillac Fairview are failing us? The PMADR correctly points out that urban destruction of the natural environment reduces the ability to counter climate regulation, water and air purification, and flood regulation. Fairview Forest does all these things! The Fairview Forest accomplishes these goals, not only with its wetlands, but also with the rest of the property where species such as the Brown Snake, bats and the Canada Warbler have been documented. The CMM propses a network of metropolitan parks to protect the environment and enhance the lives of citizens encapsulated in concrete. Fairview Forest is perfectly located to serve this purpose in what will be a huge increase of population in a T.O.D. area. Many thousands of people would be able to live within walking distance of a rare, special forest, just as is the aim for citizens of metropolitan Montreal. This perfectly aligns with the CMM values! Now with Bill 39 passed into law, the Quebec and CMM goals for natural greenspace and biodiversity are more easily within reach as the investment is far more realizeable. Will the City Council of Pointe-Claire and Cadillac Fairview be able to deny citizens this one and only chance to do the right thing? An authoritative ability to compel the city and developer is the only chance. Once more, Normand Lapointe and CMM, thank you for these efforts.

I wholeheartedly support the saving of Fairview Forest. We need to protect the forest for all and for future generations. This forest is one of the few wetlands left on the island of Montreal. It’s a beautiful forest with magical wetlands in the spring. I have found fairy shrimp in the spring wetlands so beautiful and magical to see. The beautiful hemlocks are perfect. This forest needs to be protected for all to enjoy. Its value is to us priceless to all.

Of course we need to save our green spaces! I think the environmental scientist and writer, Robin Wall Kimmerer, would be so proud of the Save Fairview Forest movement. She has said, "I just have to have faith that when we change how we think, we suddenly change how we act and how those around us act, and that’s how the world changes. It’s by changing hearts and changing minds. And it’s contagious. I became an environmental scientist and a writer because of what I witnessed growing up within a world of gratitude and gifts.” I've been so inspired watching the Save Fairview Forest movement and I know I'm not alone--your determination has changed so many hearts and minds, and I'm grateful for you. May your mission become even more contagious!