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Decentralized Democracy

Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
March 2, 2023 09:00AM
  • Mar/2/23 5:00:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 69 

Thank you. That’s actually a very good question. The minister, as part of the minister’s duty, has discretion on many issues, but there should be some kind of parameter on what that discretion is, because this government has—and I’m just using this government; we have vast disagreements in principle on the greenbelt and on some other things, and we would question some of the minister’s discretion.

Ministers need to have the ability to make decisions, but the decisions need to be encompassed in something that people have faith in. If you have good regulations and effective regulations—the idea is not to slow things down; if people have faith in the process, it should speed it up. When people don’t have faith, that’s when they start putting spokes in the wheels, even maybe if the wheels should be turning. People need to have faith, and every time that they see something that’s just, you know—you lose faith in the system. You lose faith in the system.

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