I am asking that schedule 9…

I am asking that schedule 9 be removed from the omnibus bill 5:
Schedule 9 is extreme and anti-democratic because it delegates the elected legislature’s power to determine what laws govern Ontario to the premier and his chosen cabinet. It also enables them to arbitrarily apply different laws (or no laws) to different people. Rather than setting clear criteria for or limits on designating a geographic area as a special economic zone or an enterprise as a “designate project”, the current language proposes unrestricted
discretion over the criteria to that premier and his cabinet.
● The establishment of special economic zones would create a legal mechanism for the government and the development proponent to bypass consultation and engagement with First Nation governments. The exemption from provincial laws and regulations could represent a breach of constitutionally defined and protected Indigenous rights including the Duty to Consult and the respecting the Honour of the Crown under section 35. It also represents an abandonment of public participation as legislated under the Environmental Bill
of Rights, 1993.
● While long-established consultation and engagement rights are being upended, this legislation does not propose any replacement or substitutes. As a result, Indigenous critics of the special economic zones have deemed them “Constitution-free Zones.”

I am particularity concerned since this huge bill has been pushed through the Ontario legislature at high speed with only 2 days of public hearings wth extremely small numbers of the general public being allowed to comment, for what is an extremely complex bill.

This bill could mean the end of the Greenbelt and the end of the Oakridges moraine - all decisions would be made in secret by unelected people chosen in secret by either the Premier, his Cabinet or some other Minister or individual or organization that the premier has decided is appropriate. with absolutely no public input