SUDBURY – Recently tabled at Queen’s Park, the Protect Ontario By Unleashing Our Economy Act would “cut red tape” and get mines built faster by slashing redundant bureaucracy.
So described provincial Energy and Mines Minister Stephen Lecce during a speech to local journalists at the MacLean Engineering underground mining equipment training area in Lively on Thursday.
Lecce is on a tour of Northern Ontario to promote the legislation, also making a stop in Thunder Bay.
“For too long, politicians have often been obstructionists in getting things done,” Lecce said during Thursday’s event. “They lack the imagination and the ambition to do big things.”
The proposed legislation makes “a commitment to reduce the time it takes to move with a sense of urgency while still maintaining the highest end of environmental protection while fully respecting Indigenous duty to consult,” he said, pledging to reduce timelines in the province by roughly 50 per cent
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