Premier Doug Ford’s government is poised to bring in a major new piece of legislation on Tuesday, designed to speed up construction of new highways in Ontario by shortening their environmental assessments.
The bill will be called the Get It Done Act, directly echoing the slogan that Ford’s Progressive Conservatives campaigned on during the 2022 election.
Based on what the government revealed in three successive announcements over the past week, the bill will be a grab bag of legislation, including measures completely unrelated to Ontario’s environmental laws, such as freezing the fee for renewing a driving licence.
The bill’s heftiest provisions will reduce the timeline for environmental assessments
