OTTAWA – The Governments of Canada and Ontario committed to working together to protect the environment and give Ontario greater regulatory certainty to advance Highway 413. Through the agreement announced today, both Ontario and Canada have agreed to a collaborative process to assess and manage the issues around federal species at risk throughout Ontario’s planning of the project. At Ontario …
TORONTO — Doug Downey, Attorney General of Ontario, issued the following statement: “Following the federal government’s decision that it is not conducting an impact assessment of Ontario Place under its unconstitutional Impact Assessment Act, I am urging them to similarly get out of the way so that our government can get shovels in the ground on Highway 413. “Until the …
Legal certainty will help build critical infrastructure across the province TORONTO — Doug Downey, Ontario’s Attorney General, released the following statement: “In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada’s October 13 opinion that held that the vast majority of the federal government’s duplicative Impact Assessment Act was unconstitutional, our government is taking immediate legal action to bring certainty so that …
Ontario – Ontario is starting pre-development work with Bruce Power to site the first large-scale nuclear build in a generation to help meet rising electricity demand with reliable, emissions-free power that will support electrification and power Ontario’s economic growth. Impact Assessment New large-scale nuclear projects in Canada are currently subject to a federal Impact Assessment (IA). The federal Impact Assessment Agency of …
