🚨RED ALERT FOR FORESTS AND WETLANDS 🚨

From Environmental Defence
By Tim Gray, Executive Director

The Ontario Government is trying to force another omnibus bill through the legislature before Christmas. They’re calling it the More Housing Built Faster Act, but in reality it’s a More Sprawl, Fewer Wetlands Act.

BILL 23 WILL:

• Direct conservation authorities to sell off conservation lands
• Strip conservation authority powers which protect us from floods
• Remove protections from woodlands, wetlands and wildlife habitat¹
• Cancel municipal green building standards
• Impose farm-eating sprawl on municipalities like Hamilton, Halton and Waterloo that chose to build more homes within city limits

Luckily, there’s still time to demand that your MPP votes against this destructive bill as it is currently written.

We’ve been here before with Bill 66.

In 2018, when the Ontario Government tried to sneak an attack on the Greenbelt into legislation about “Restoring Competitiveness,” tens of thousands of people just like you contacted their MPPs. The government backed down and abandoned their attack on the Greenbelt.

Now we need to raise our voices once again to stop this new attack on liveable communities and their woodlands, wetlands and conservation areas.

Our license plates say ‘Yours to Discover’, but Ontario is also ‘Yours to Protect.’

PS – Bill 23 contains too many attacks on our environment to cover in a single email, but if you would like to better understand this complex policy and legislation package please register for our webinar on Monday, November 7th at 12:00 PM or read this detailed analyis.

1. The changes to the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System are policy changes which will be debated and finalized separately. More here: https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6160, https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6161, https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-2927.