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Consultation on Proposed Special Economic Zones Criteria

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The environment and any species in that environment must be protected by law and not by a politicians' discretion. Any decisions made must be transparent to the people of Ontario so that they can hold the decision-makers to account using the law. Read more

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Thanks for recognizing need for tweaks to Bill 5, but this proposal will prove less than effective at requiring confirmation of Indigenous rights holders' full involvement and informed consent.This is primary to successful accomplishment of any resource development scenarios. Read more

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I am very concerned about the Special Economic Zones Act, 2025 (Bill 5) which gives the Ontario government sweeping powers to override environmental protections, exempt hand-picked companies from laws, and sideline Indigenous voices within “Special Economic Zones” (SEZs) — in the name of “economic g Read more

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This is just a terrible idea for future generations. We need to protect what's left our nature in Ontario, to stabilize Earth's climate, to prevent acidification of the oceans, and to stop polluting. Clearly, the business-as-usual approach is unable to do this. Just stop!!!!

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Please amend or scrap this bill, overriding environmental reviews, as well as ignoring feedback from indigenous communities, is a dangerous and reckless way to speed up our provincial building spree, it is also clearly seen from the ways we keep suburban sprawling into farmlands, while ignoring actu Read more

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Bill 5, in the guise of fighting Donald Trump, does exactly what he is doing. It eliminates environmental protections and ignores binding treaties with First Nations to allow indiscriminate resource extraction in any area that the government designates 'a special economic zone'. Read more

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This does not affirm indigenous rights and they don't ensure that risk management is essential to these SEZs and they will be extremely effective. And there is no one independent who can assess if trusted proponents have a good record on environmental compliance.

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I don't believe that special economic zones legislation is necessary. To me, it is a trampling on the rights of the citizens of Ontario to make billionaires more wealthy. The projects that we really need are not the ones that will be lobbied for.

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