Unfortunately, this proposal…

Unfortunately, this proposal is a serious overreach from a government who claims to promote a small government approach. This is a clear example of how the province creates red tape for municipalities and slows down the development process and preventing updates to infrastructure and innovation. By slowing down the process for municipalities to make decisions for their own communities, you are ensuring that municipalities are blamed for mistakes at higher levels of government. Already, by not giving local governments discretion in things like ECAs, which take months for the province to review, the development process is extended unnecessarily, this is a further example of bureaucracy. It is absurd that Ontario is discouraging the development of active transportation infrastructure. It demonstrates extreme ignorance of the climate change crisis and shows that the Premier cares more about scoring political points than taking effective action to combat climate change or our genuine infrastructure issues. There is still time to reverse this decision and be on the correct side of history.