Bill 66 requires serious…

Bill 66 requires serious amendment in at least two areas.

Schedule 7: The Wireless Services Agreement Act, 2013, must not be repealed. It provides consumers with far more robust protection and redress, including the right to launch class action lawsuits against wireless service providers, than the weak federal complaints procedure. We consumers are left at the mercy of the telecom giants.

Schedule 10: This misguided section allows municipalities to override the Greenbelt Act, the Clean Water Act, the Great Lakes protection Act Act, The Oak-Ridges Moraine Act, the Lake Simcoe Protection Act, (and to do so without proper public notice, consultation or recourse.) These acts are not red tape, but the necessary protections for the water we drink and the natural heritage we cherish. This is nothing short of a betrayal of the public good to commercial interests under the guise of job creation. Schedule 10 should be entirely eliminated.