<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Good afternoon,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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!!!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Congratulations to everyone who spoke up, wrote letters, sent e-mails and ensured that our serious concerns about Bill 66 were heard! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Congratulations!</div><div class="">Kevin.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="99219D19-424E-4CD6-816C-41BDD06D5673" src="cid:06111864-8276-48BA-9433-46739EC8D8A6" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class="">-------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Kevin Thomason</div><div>Vice-Chair, Grand River Environmental Network<br class=""><br class="">Phone: (519) 888-0519<br class="">Mobile Phone/WhatsApp: (519) 240-1648<br class="">Twitter: @kthomason<br class=""><a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com" class="">E-mail: kevinthomason@mac.com</a><br class=""><br class="">-----------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>