Ontario Premier Doug Ford, like Conservatives across Canada, is hell bent to get rid of every regulation and law that prevents his corporate friends from maximizing profits. Completely ignoring the climate crisis, Bill 5 lets corporations do whatever they want no matter what harm it does to the environment or people.
It is not a surprise; Ford has already legislated removal of inconvenient red tape regulations that protect the people in healthcare, education and housing.
Well documented is Ford’s plan to develop the Ring of Fire, continuing to ride roughshod over Indigenous people and ignoring their rights, no matter what environmental damage it does.
Ford claims he will jump on a bulldozer himself to clear the forest for a road for mineral extraction. This is the last and largest boreal forest in the world. A massive area of carbon storage of forest wetlands and peatlands, that First Nations showing their critically important knowledge of the environment call, “the breathing lands” because they act as the world’s lungs.
Ford’s environmental wrecking ball, Bill 5, must be stopped because it hurts all of us and only benefits wealthy industrialists. Who, in their right mind would ever agree to a Bill like that.
We must all let our opposition to Bill 5 be heard.
Paul Kahnert
rabble contributor
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