The flippant disregard for…

The flippant disregard for the PPS is autocratic and removes all accountability from the government who's purpose is to make decisions based on its constituents. Further, most First Nations communities in Ontario have treaty rights that include the right to hunt, fish, and gather foods and medicines from their treaty lands - into perpetuity. Taking such lands out of circulation as part of a resource development or a housing project impacts those treaty rights - which is why the current PPS requires Indigenous engagement in an open and procedurally-fair process. If that process seems too onerous and the government excuses itself from that consultation via an MZO, it breaks promises which the highest court in the land has determined are unbreakable - and drives home the point made by some Indigenous community leaders that our legal system does not protect the interests of the First Nations.