With regard to the proposed…

With regard to the proposed Bill 23, as a member of a Heritage Committee that has worked to promote appreciation and preservation of local built heritage and landscape, I find that the proposed changes to the Ontario Heritage Act in the proposed bill negate many years of local volunteer efforts. These destructive changes are ill-founded and don't reflect any understanding of the heritage facet of life in Ontario communities. I agree with the sentiments in the Architectural Conservancy Ontario media release of November 10, 2022.

The proposed Bill 23 needs to be amended so that the Ontario Heritage Act is unchanged. There should be no change in the criteria for designating a property and one of the long-recognized criteria remains sufficient. There should no complicating changes to the existing procedures related to listing properties on a municipality's Heritage Register.