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The Honourable Rick Bartolucci, Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing will be the guest speaker at our 2011 Annual General Meeting. Date: Saturday, May 7, 2011 Location: reThink Green Environmental Centre, 176 Larch Street, Sudbury, Ontario 2011 AGM Agenda (revised May 5) See the full notice: 2011 AGM Notice Read the proposed Constitution amendments. We are excited … Read more
With a provincial election happening in October 2011 there is a sense that things are being viewed and created increasingly from a political and less from a policy perspective. This is to be expected but it makes it less likely that there will be substantial legislation carried forward in the next few months.
Two matters where there was substantial public involvement in 2010 and on which consequently there is interest and expectancy that the government will deliver new policy in 2011 are the anti-SLAPP Advisory Committee (chaired by Dean Mayo Moran from University of Toronto Law School), and the Five Year Review of the 2005 Provincial Policy Statement.