My partner works in an…

My partner works in an industry that requires strict adherence to timelines and daily fines for not meeting deadlines are common. His organization is very incentivised to meet these deadlines because daily fines are quite detrimental the bottom line.

I am struggling to understand how a change to a one-time fee is better for any people or the environment. Strict fines and increased penalty for polluting and environmental destruction are good incentives for compliance from the industry.

A one-time fine is easily built in to a budget, allowing companies to plan to pollute. We should require higher standards from our industries and expect that they understand they will pay should they not comply.

Conservatives are traditionally a "tough on crime" group. How is it that when companies are wantonly polluting our planet, our Ministry of the Environment finds it acceptable to ensure that businesses can budget to pollute and that overall fines are decreased? The the face of a climate crisis, why is this government set on doing less and not more to protect our future?