[All] BREAKING NEWS! Bill 66, Section 10 Revoked

[Susan Koswan]

Great news, Kevin Thanks! But somehow I don't trust Ford. And we still 
need to be concerned about the cancellation of the Toxics Reduction Act.

Susan K

On 1/23/2019 5:13 PM, Kevin Thomason wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> Amazing news just breaking from Queen’s Park where Minister Steve 
> Clark has announced that the government has heard the concerns about 
> Schedule 10 of Bill 66 and that they will be revoking that section as 
> we have been requesting!!!
>
> Congratulations to everyone who spoke up, wrote letters, sent e-mails 
> and ensured that our serious concerns about Bill 66 were heard!
>
> We still don’t know much of the details aside from the tweets on 
> Twitter (copy below) but there have been thousands of retweets within 
> minutes.  We are in the process of preparing a press release for our 
> local media and we’ll keep you posted as we learn more.
>
> There are still many concerning things happening be it changes to the 
> Growth Plan, Climate Change, the Endangered Species Act, Regional 
> Review/amalgamation, etc. so we will still need to remain vigilant and 
> active working to ensure our strong local protections, water, 
> farmland, natural areas and natural resources aren’t threatened.
>
> We still encourage people to keep meetings with MPP’s and other 
> officials.  We will still be proceeding with the Our Water, Our Future 
> event on February 7th too.
>
> Thank you to everyone for so much hard work.  Our local and regional 
> councils with their strong Staff Reports and Resolutions against Bill 
> 66 helped to lead things and set the tone provincially.  We’ve 
> achieved what many said was impossible and got the Ford government to 
> backtrack again from their awful plan to override and imperil so much.
>
> Congratulations!
> Kevin.
>
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> Kevin Thomason
> Vice-Chair, Grand River Environmental Network
>
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