BILL66: MORALLY WRONG,…

BILL66: MORALLY WRONG, UNDEMOCRATIC AND DANGEROUS
I want this message to ring the bell of danger. BILL66 undercuts every current hard-won “good” in Ontario civic, economic and environmental life.
(A) Morally wrong: (a) Even in the timing of the announcement of the bill, this was timed to sneak into public awareness – the Christmas/New Year rush and distraction wiped out the ordinary person’s awareness of the threat to our society embedded in the Bill. (b) A short time for citizens to react to the danger. (c) The Bill does not benefit the ordinary person. The Premier’s promise was to make life better for “The People”. But this Bill transparently plays to the benefit of developers, businessmen, and the rich who want to be richer. (d) You lied, Mr. Premier. Everyday life in Ontario will be a scene of chaos as the rich and powerful and greedy take over without any of the current protective laws in effect. (e) This bill is even titled with a lie: Business in Ontario is already open: functioning and doing relatively well. What is being protected is not the existing economy (functioning within traditions, expectations, today’s laws and equal opportunity).
(B) Undemocratic: In a democracy, all individuals have equal access to health, safety, justice, and opportunity. This Bill openly creates opportunities for “business”, but simultaneously “pulling out the rug” of hard-won protections supporting the security of small businesses, the air all of us breathe, the water we drink, and the securities of property and just protections in law. This Bill will affect physical health even of the bulldozing “businessmen” and their families. A sense of security and stability is part of physical and mental health, and would not exist under the takeover by the wealthy.
(C) Dangerous: This Bill will create injustice, chaos and turmoil in society at large, while “Business” will have the right to undercut all familiar securities. In Ontario currently and in other provinces, “the people” have a level of security of clean air and water, protection of private and public property, and accepted rights that cannot be bulldozed out of existence by government-approved bullying. Small businesses and individuals may move out of the province to regain security of health, property and social stability.
Under this Bill, the transition from our usual limits and protections will be wiped out – chaos would surely ensue. Democracy is wiped out by this Bill: the already wealthy and secure could stage a takeover of all benefits of living in Ontario, while the ordinary citizen loses benefits of stable, protective laws to maintain equal benefits to all. The adjustment to the new set of takeover rights would be disruptive and grievous. So much for taking care of the “people”!!