Ontario’s Open for Business Act (Bill 66) threatens our Greenbelt, sensitive natural habitat, and important farmland. Economic and housing opportunities already abound in Ontario cities and towns without the need to bypass protections afforded by important legislation like the Clean Waters Act, Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act, and Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, all of which may be circumvented by Bill 66.
To learn more:
- Deregulation Redux: Ontario’s Environmental Laws under Attack (CELA)
- Tories’ Bill 66 would undermine clean-water protections that followed Walkerton tragedy, victims and advocates warn (Toronto Star)
- Tories’ bill could punch factory-sized holes in the Greenbelt (TVO)
- Bill 66, Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, 2018 (ERO)
Here are several ways you can raise your objections:
- Sign Ontario Nature’s letter to Premier Doug Ford and others
- Sign the Environmental Defence Petition
- Sign the North 99 petition
- Sign the Change.org petition
- Submit a comment with the Environmental Registry of Ontario
- Object on social media using the hashtag #stopbill66