The MCEA should not be revoked but instead should be updated. While the Environmental Assessment Act has been around for 50 years the MCEA has only been in place for approximately 30 years.
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Through our comments on the ERO posting, the City will be looking for guidance from the Province on the following:
• How engagement with Indigenous Communities will be fulfilled for infrastructure projects that do not follow the MPAP process.
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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.
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Doug Ford:
Ontario didn’t start with you.
Have some consideration for this province’s First Nations and many years of rich historical artifacts which are worth studying and protecting.
It’s not just about money!
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I object to this proposal. It will cause much environmental and archaeological damage, which cannot be undone. Environmental and archaeological surveys are important and should continue to be held.
I am writing because I stand with the comments made by the Ontario Archaeological Society, Chippewa of the Thames First Nation, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation regarding the proposed “streamlined “ process of development in Ontario.
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Please accept the attached from the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association (GOHBA) and its members as a submission to the government’s request for feedback on ‘New Regulation to focus municipal environmental assessment requirements’ (ERO 019-7891 / 23-MECP025).
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This proposal seems very dangerous to archaeology, First Nations history and rights, and of course the environment. If there are going to be replacements, the public needs to see them and understand exactly what kind of transition there will be.
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In a time when we are facing multiple overlapping crisis (biodiversity, and climate to name the two most relevant to this legislation) it is UNCONSCIONABLE that The Ministry of Environment is washing its hands of any responsibility for care-taking our natural and cultural heritage environment.
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The Ontario Rivers Alliance (ORA) is a not-for-profit grassroots organization with a mission to protect, conserve and restore riverine ecosystems in Ontario.
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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
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This recent proposal is very concerning, this new model does not provide sufficient protection for archaeological heritage and Ancestor burials.
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While Williams Treaties First Nations have identified several immediate concerns with the proposal explained in this letter, the 30-day time frame provided makes it unfeasible to fully evaluate the implications of excluding 87 types of projects from the municipal environmental assessment process and
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proposed change to the EA process does not provide sufficient protection for cultural
heritage and archaeological resources as well as ancestor burials. Removal of the
current regulations that trigger heritage and archaeological assessments in advance of
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The proposed legislation will only make it easier for municipalities to write off areas of archaeological potential (and which some have already been doing), including pre and post contact settlement and burial sites, undermining the work of the archaeological profession and destroying valuable heri
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