This proposed new regime…

This proposed new regime removes virtually all protection for our cultural heritage and natural environment so that houses, bridges and highways can be built faster. Citizens won’t even be able to appeal to the government and all concerns will need to be directed to the development proponent.

- the Ministry is downloading its duty to care for the Environment to municipalities without guiding, supporting, or supervising the process.

- the proposal removes the need to investigate and mitigate impacts on cultural heritage resources, for most municipal infrastructure projects

- particularly distressing is the way that aboriginal and/or treaty rights are dealt with in the new the proposal which poses great risks to Ancestor burial and archaeological sites, and does not fulfill the constitutional Duty to Consult and Accommodate. It puts Ontario in violation of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) which Canada adopted in 2016.

I reject the changes proposed for the Province's Municipal Environmental Assessment Requirements.