“Remove Schedule 10 from…

“Remove Schedule 10 from Bill 66, which allows municipalities to override provisions in the Greenbelt Act, Clean Water Act, Lake Simcoe Act, Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act and Great Lakes Protection Act.”

The present Ontario government should be aware of the Precautionary Principle, to which Canada is a signatory. This is an internationally endorsed policy to enable the protection of the environment, during a time when it is very much under threat from Climate Change. With the shortage of available farmland in Ontario, it behoves the Ford government to continue to protect major food sources for Ontarians. Ontarians' food security is being threatened by extreme weather events, like droughts, flooding, catastrophic wild fires, erratic temperatures, and government officials' complacency. Before undertaking these overrides, all elected and non elected government officials need to undertake educational courses in climate change. Willful ignorance is not an excuse for overriding protections that were intensely studied and well considered, before they were made.