Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma tabled Bill 69, the Reducing Inefficiencies Act, on Monday
A short new bill tabled by Ontario's infrastructure minister to allow the government to speed up environmentally sensitive development projects is concerning opposition parties at Queen's Park.
Although the government described these 30 days as a "waiting period" in its press release announcing the bill, Environmental Defence's Phil Pothen, the environmental advocacy organization's Ontario program manager, said it's a time when the "minister is supposed to be considering, and the public is supposed to be debating, whether to refer a project for a more detailed assessment.
After this story was first published, a member in Environment Minister David Piccini's office emailed The Trillium to stress that because the changes only apply to class environmental assessments that large transit projects "would likely" still be subject to a full environment assessment. He also noted that it would only allow waiting periods to be waived in certain circumstances.
The bill would also change the Ministry of Infrastructure Act would to give the infrastructure minister authority over real estate that's currently controlled by eight other ministries, allowing Surma to oversee and manage these properties. Nine other acts would be tweaked to allow for the authority of these properties to be brought into the infrastructure minister's portfolio.
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