I agree with the Canadain…

I agree with the Canadain Environmental Law Association (CELA) in that public consultation should be longer considering the complexity of the notice and public interest as laid out in part 2 of the Environmental Bill of Rights. The CELA also says that bill 108 is being debated despite including changes to the Environmental Assesment Act which are being in this registry. I have concerns that low-risk projects might not actually be low risk or multiple low-risk projects could have a significant impact. I also have concerns that the report excludes economic factors in some sections and misleads the public. People living outside of Ontario may have valuable insight into a project or expertise that help a local organization. I am concerned that some people may be less able to participate if bump up requests are limited to Ontarians. I am concerned that harmful projects might be allowed to go ahead with some of these reforms but, do agree that the private sector should have an environmental Assessment without a list based or threshold based approach due to the risk of the threshold being a political number. I don't feel it is appropriate to include opinions on federal legislation that has not passed especially if timelines have been reduced for projects contrary to claims made in the discussion paper. The Federal government also will have lower standards than Ontario due to federalism. There is a lack of a definition of what meaningful indigenous consultation means according to the CELA. There is misleading information on class EAs as they are not detailed in this paper.