"Canada can build more homes without getting rid of Greenbelts." Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre.

From an interview with Josh Pringle and Bill Carroll on CFRA The Morning Rush, August 23, 2023.

 The asylum shelters will be built on the Greenbelt--- The Nepean Sportsplex, Eagleson Park and Ride and Confederation High School. 

House of Commons Ottawa May 25, 2010 MP Marcel Proulx (Hull-Aylmer): "The Liberal members from the National Capital Region, the member for Ottawa South, the member for Ottawa-Vanier and myself have good reason to call for enhanced protection of the greenbelt...Together the City of Ottawa and the NCC can do what they like with it. We believe this greenspace must be protected from developers."

House of Commons Ottawa September 16, 2009: The Hon. Gordon O'Connor (Minister of National Defence): "I am one of the great supporters of the greenbelt. I believe it is part of our heritage...The NCC has the mandate to maintain the greenbelt."

House of Commons Ottawa August 11, 1987: MP Don Boudria (Glengarry-Prescott-Russell) Liberal: "It is the responsibility of the NCC to protect and maintain the Greenbelt."

House of Commons Ottawa April 22, 1996: MP Marlene Catterall (Ottawa West, Lib.) "Mr. Speaker, I have the pleasure to present a petition signed by close to 1,000 people. It arises from a situation that occurred in our nation's capital last year when the National Capital Commission was looking at selling off parts of green spaces and open corridors in the nation's capital."

"The petitioners call to the attention of the House that when Jacques Greber released his plan for the national capital in 1950 it was dedicated, at the direction of Cabinet, as a national war memorial. Therefore the petitioners call on Parliament to ensure that this commitment and the greenspaces of the capital are maintained as a war memorial and are not disposed of or sold."

House of Commons Ottawa September 16, 2009: MP Royal Galipeau (Ottawa-Orleans, CPC) "...This great swath of land encircling urban Ottawa includes farms, forests and wetlands that total over 20,000 hectares....The Greenbelt encircles Ottawa from Shirley's Bay in Ottawa West-Nepean to Green's Creek in Ottawa-Orleans...More than one million visitors a year go walking, sliding down hills, cross-country skiing or snowshoeing there, among other places..."