Comment
I am commenting on the proposed amendments to the Rebuilding Ontario Place Act, 2023.
I am opposed to Schedule 8 of the Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025, exempting every project tied to the Ontario Place redevelopment (and any enterprise or activity that furthers the Ontario Place Redevelopment Project that is not at the Ontario Place site) from Part II of the Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993.
Part II of the Environmental Bill of Rights specifically outlines “minimum levels of public participation that must be met before the Government of Ontario makes decisions on certain kinds of environmentally significant proposals for policies, Acts, regulations and instruments.” Schedule 8 will completely eliminate public participation, as well as eliminating informing the public about environmentally significant activities specifically with regard to Ontario Place.
This proposed amendment is to benefit private sector initiatives, and it is not in the public interest nor the interest of our environment. I am calling on the Government of Ontario to remove Schedule 8 of the new Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act, 2025.
I have a degree in Environmental Studies and I am disgusted at the blatant disregard for the environment these sneaky proposed amendments have. I am so saddened as an Ontarian to see our government acting in this way. You are destroying the province for current and future generations by trying to sacrifice the environment for a private spa no one wants.
Submitted April 29, 2025 7:40 PM
Comment on
Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act, 2025.
ERO number
025-0416
Comment ID
127518
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