Bill 66 should not be approved. Section 39 of the Clean Water Act requires that source water protection plans are followed by new developments to ensure the health and safety of the public.
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This bill is a terrible, retrograde, and anti-democratic piece of legislation, effectively side-stepping essential environmental and other protections. These protections were put in place over decades, by elected governments of different parties, based on significant research and consultation.
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I disagree with many of the proposals made in this bill. Eliminating protections put in place for consumers doesn't cut red tape, it cuts consumer protections. Eliminating environmental protections doesn't cut red tape, it cuts environmental protections.
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I am writing to ask you to remove Schedules 5 and 10 from the proposed Bill 66, Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act, 2018. These sections needlessly threaten essential health and safety protection for Ontario residents. Schedule 5 repeals needed controls on toxic substances.
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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 significance that the current provincial government is placing on Bill 66 and labeling it ‘Open for Business' is misleading and lacking in real detail. The specifics of what is being proposed are deliberately being withheld.
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I do not support this and believe it is a ridiculous assumption to think this will in any way increase Ontario's competitiveness in any positive manner. If at all increased in competitiveness, it will be offset by the assets we will devalue along the way.
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We need development too be smart. Getting rid of environmental regulation is not smart; it is short sighted and will have negative impacts. These impacts will be to future health, recreation, and economics of the citizens of Ontario. Please reconsider. Thank you.
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.
Dear Conservative government,
I would like to remind you what good governance is - and how Bill 66 S. 10 and S. 5 was presented is not an example of good governance.
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Go very slow on freeing up developers discretion to do what they want . Laws and regulations have been put in place to prevent them from taking undue advantage and doing too much collateral damage .
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We are so disgusted by the current Ontario Government's actions that my husband (a physician) and I (a consultant) are considering leaving the province of Ontario and taking our money with us (which is all the current government seems to care about).
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No to Bill 66. I grew up in the Greenbelt - my grandparents lived on a rural property in Raglan, Ontario, in a Designated Natural Heritage Systems area.
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I'm incredibly concerned about the provincial government's plan to sidestep very important provisions of a number of environmental protection acts with this act.
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With respect to Bill 66, I urge the government to take its responsibility to protect the environment seriously. This Bill opens to doors to open the Greenbelt to development, which will harm currently protected areas from environmental damage.
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Repealing any laws that negatively impact our long term health is damaging and short sited! Do not open the greenbelt for development. Do not repeal or give exceptions to environmental regulations put in place to preserve our water or the environment at large. We need these ecosystems to survive!
Repealing of red tape is an honourable objective. Endangering Ontarians' health and undermining critical environmental protections in the process is unacceptable. Bill 66 threatens the Clean Water Act and repeals the Toxics Reduction Act. It will allow circumvention of Greenbelt protections.
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