Proposed Bill 66 will have a…

Proposed Bill 66 will have a severely negative effect on Ontario's environment and should not be passed . In particular, under the guise of "An Act to restore Ontario's competitiveness" Bill 66 proposes to give local municipalities, with the approval of the Minister, the ability to pass "open for business planning bylaws" that will render inapplicable several key Acts which protect our water supply (Great Lakes Protection Act 2005; Clean Water Act 2006; Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act 2001) and land protection (for leisure, recreation and general prevention of massed housing and industrial building installations on currently open and protected land) through neutralization of the Greenbelt Act 2005.
I am all in favour of improving Ontario's business, but let us not "throw the baby out with the bathwater" and hide massive and irreparable damage to our great province by approving Bill 66 in its current form.