Bill 66, or the "Restoring…

Bill 66, or the "Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act", scraps numerous regulations meant to protect people against everything from workplace injuries to inflated cellphone bills.

It also opens up Green Belt conservation lands for business use. Yet, the Green Belt helps absorb excess water, stores excess carbon, the trees clean the air so we don’t have smog days that threaten seniors and more. It was the PC government that was rightfully upset that the public and local communities were not spoken to with regards to wind power installations permitted by the Wynne Liberals and yet now it’s the same Party advancing a law that does worse!

This Bill also allows more children to be put in daycares with less supervision. Those regulations were put in place as a direct reaction to children dying in unlicensed daycares. This just makes children more vulnerable and it is shameful that their decreased safety is being sold as “more affordable”.

The federal mandate on cellular companies does not protect citizens from lengthy contracts or secretive fees. You are removing consumer protections which will allow large companies to be more “profitable” by forcing people into dubious contracts.

And finally, this Bill “removes the red tape” that comes with dumping toxins in our water supply. The regulations on health and safety regarding toxins has been written in blood. We wrote those laws because people died from bad policy.

This government finds new ways to disregard the very people they claim to represent. This will not stand. This Bill must be severely amended or outright torn up.