Anti-environment measures tucked into Liberal budget bill - thestar.com

Clayton Ruby has an article in The Toronto Star noting the provincial budget as a "strike at the heart of Ontario's Endangered Species Act..."

Anti-environment measures tucked into Liberal budget bill - thestar.com:

What is Premier Dalton McGuinty hiding in your budget bill? The legal ability to hurt Ontario’s most vulnerable species, that’s what.

Ontario appears to be echoing the mood of the federal government, which also used its budget bill to introduce significant changes to environmental protection laws, a move that had less to do with budgets and more to do with undoing transparency, accountability and environmental responsibility.

Likewise, the Ontario Liberals have buried several proposed changes in their new budget bill that strike at the heart of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act (ESA), a piece of legislation this government proudly touted a mere five years ago.

 Read the entire article at The Toronto Star website