I am commenting on the…

I am commenting on the proposed amendment 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, ask, regulations and instruments.” Schedule 8 will completely eliminate public participation, as well as eliminating information from the public without environmentally significant activities specifically with regard to Ontario Place.

This proposed amendment is to benefit private sector initiatives, and 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.

Protecting our environment IS protecting Ontario. Let’s keep it that way.