Comment
This bill is not about restoring competitiveness but about gutting necessary environmental and regulatory protections in regards to the Planning Act and other related provincial legislation. Schedule 10 is most disturbing as it eliminates protections for drinking water sources which came about after the PC Harris government enabled the Walkerton tragedy. This tragedy not only killed people but left a couple thousand people with life-altering injuries and conditions due to the province's wilful criminal negligence. Putting such a provision to undermine these protections is asking for Walkerton 2.0 and should be considered illegal as it undermines the human right to access to safe drinking water. If something were to happen from this removal of drinking water quality protection, then the provincial government should be held accountable and punished with individuals receiving jail time due to their criminal negligence
Submitted January 5, 2019 3:18 PM
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Bill 66, Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, 2018
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013-4293
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16920
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