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Firstly, it is undemocratic and terribly controlling to include so many schedules in one Bill. It needs to be broken up into 3 or 4 Bills. Currently it is an attempt to dominate, fool and cheat the populace.
Definitely, schedule 5 and schedule 10 need to be removed from Bill 66. By all evidence, both scientific and experiential, we must do everything we can to protect our environment from devastating climate change. Business, commerce, and lifestyle are killing us. It is not true that we "cannot afford to save ourselves." We must reduce carbon emissions (including maintaining carbon storage in the earth), preserve species habitat, maintain productive farmland and aggressively guard our water supplies.
If we don't do these things, any business that encroaches on these areas will be useless when climate change takes its toll in 15-25 years. We dare not close our eyes until it is too late (which is almost now).
If we are smart and wise, the economy can flourish (not necessarily grow by leaps and bounds) without destroying the earth's breath that we all need to survive. We must not think only now to the detriment of the future. "Open for Business" is currently blind to what is best for business.