On April 17, 2025 the Ford Government quietly tabled the omnibus Bill 5, the Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act.
While the bill introduces some added authority to restrict foreign ownership/investment in government procurement of things like electricity generation and mining claims/mines, the guts of the bill are:
- a full-on attack on vulnerable species; and
- a new authoritarian “override power” of all environmental and other provincial/municipal laws.
The bill continues the Ford administrations’ dismantling of our democratic rights and disenfranchisement of duly elected municipal politicians/councils.
Read more at: Province behaves like U.S. president – April 29, 2025, Victor Doyle, Alliance for a Livable Ontario
Help stop Bill 5!
Send a letter to your MPP asking them to stop Bill 5. ALO member group Environmental Defence Canada has created a letter you can send now.
Help stop Bill 5 now!Photo: ©Paddy Duncan