Though I am fully in favour…

Though I am fully in favour of cutting red tape and ensuring procedural simplicity - this bill alarms me greatly. My primary concern is the municipal exemption it provides to the Clean Water Act. As I'm sure many have already noted, this seems like blatant madness. I cannot think of anything more important than protecting our water sources (apart, perhaps, from protecting the air we all breathe), and given what happened in Walkerton, this seems like a very dangerous area in which to relax regulation. Exemptions to the Greenbelt Act are also highly alarming, especially in light of Doug Ford's campaign promise to maintain protections for that unique ecological and agricultural resource. What a betrayal of the promise he made to the people who elected his government. Given the sweeping nature of changes proposed in this Act, it seems like it would be more appropriate to break it down into a series of distinct, smaller bills so that the changes can each be given the debate and deliberation they deserve. I do not support the Act in its current form and the fact that these massive changes are trying to be put through as one bill does not give me confidence in this government's commitment to the principal of democracy. When you have formed government with only 40% of the popular vote, you do not have a mandate to impose such sweeping changes - especially when the changes directly contradict was promised during the campaign.

Sincerely,

James Sandham
Toronoto ON, M6K 1W5
james.sandham@gmail.com