I am writing to register my…

I am writing to register my strong opposition to Bill 66. It is despicable of this government to ram through such a piece of legislation on such short notice, covering such a wide range of important matters.

I am especially concerned about Schedule 5 regarding the Environment. I believe I speak for many Canadians when I say, we do not want our beautiful province of Ontario to be more Open-for-Business. Open-for-Business means feeding into the pathological greed of a small number of wealthy business owners and developers, at the expense of the vast majority of ordinary people of Ontario, the animals of Ontario, the plants of Ontario, and the environment of Ontario.

We do not want Ontario to be more Open-for-Business. We want Ontario to be open to, in the words of your own report "Preserving and Protecting our Environment for Future Generations".

Giving local municipalities the power to make decisions to allow the degradation of our environment is unthinkably short-sighted and will inevitably lead to greed and profiteering driving decision-making. Irrevocable harm will be done without proper provincial-level oversight. Not all oversight is wasteful red tape as you like to imply. Some rules exist for very good reason.