Nobody would condemn a…

Nobody would condemn a policy to increase Ontario's competitiveness, in real, technological, and economic terms. But the intention to augment the Province's competitiveness by making it easier to subvert laws that protect our environment, our water resources, and the Great Lakes is completely unacceptable. These laws protect us, the residents of this Province, as well as the environment as such. Making it easier for companies to pollute and degrade our environment is an extremely poor excuse for those companies' not working to increase their actual efficiency -- and an increase in efficiency is the only way to truly augment competitiveness. Besides, corrupting our environment now will only increase the cost of remediating the damage in the future. There is ALWAYS a price to pay for environmental degradation, sooner or later.

Therefore I would request that the Government 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.