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The ORA is strongly opposed to the proposed amendments to the Planning Act in Schedule 10 of Bill 60, Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025. These changes further erode Ontario’s already weakened land-use planning system, remove core environmental and climate safeguards, undermine public and Indigenous rights, and consolidate extraordinary discretionary powers in the hands of the Minister.
These proposals follow a multi-year trend of dismantling core environmental protections, accelerating sprawl, and sidelining evidence-based planning in favour of political expediency. Schedule 10 is not a “streamlining” measure—it is a structural restructuring of Ontario’s planning regime at the direct expense of watershed health, climate resilience, and public accountability.
ORA urges the Province to withdraw Schedule 10 in its entirety.