Environmental Defence
November 28, 2022:
Bill 23 will Unleash a Firestorm of Environmentally Destructive Rural Sprawl — It Must Be Repealed
By forcing passage of Bill 23, the “More Homes Built Faster Act,” Ontario’s government has lit the fuse on an explosion of expensive sprawl tht will destroy much of the remaining wetland and wildlife habitat in Ontario’s most sensitive ecoregions.
Nature Ontario
November 28, 2022:
Bill 23 Media Statement
“Ontarians will remember this day as one when critical environmental protections were undercut. We will live with, and pay for, the predictable consequences of harming our natural heritage, wetlands and farmland under the pretense of affordable housing. Adding insult to injury, input from the public and conservation authorities into land use planning and decisions that affect their communities has been silenced.”
Ecojustice
November 24, 2022:
The Ford government is trying to sell off Ontario’s Natural Heritage
But if we’ve learnt anything from the past few weeks about what this Ontario government is afraid of, it’s people power. Public solidarity in support of striking education workers forced Doug Ford and his government to back down when they brazenly overrode the constitution of Canada.
That is why thousands of people across Ontario are showing their opposition to Bill 23 and this government’s plans to weaken the province’s protection of many natural areas. Our friends at Environmental Defence,¹⁴ Ontario Nature ¹⁵and the Canadian Environmental Law Association¹⁶ among many others are helping to host rallies and organize actions to demonstrate opposition to this legislation.