I unfortunately see a great…

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I unfortunately see a great number of difficulties with this bill, the first of which is that there are far too many and widespread issues being addressed. Omnibus bills such as this are never good for the public as, while there may well be some good components, there are often others that many will have difficulty with and it's an all-or-nothing proposition.
Changing the way municipalities can process developer applications without public consultation is bad enough, but removing an appeal process is absolutely tyrannical. Southern Ontario in particular is in jeopardy of losing prime agricultural lands and protected environmental lands. Those protections were put in place for a reason, and we need to keep agricultural land for its designed purpose - to provide food for the rest of us. There may come a time we will not be able to rely on international imports, and our local producers must be encouraged to continue to stay in operation.
The remainder of the multitude of changes that the government wishes to endorse and employ may well have their good points - in that instance they deserve the concentrated attention and due diligence they deserve on their own merits, not be lumped together in a huge bill such as this.
Premier Ford, please reconsider this bill - you were elected to change the ways things were done in government, don't replicate the Liberals' tactics of information overload in one piece of legislation.