{"id":27053,"date":"2017-10-24T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cupeon201807.wpengine.com\/?p=27053"},"modified":"2017-10-24T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:24:03","slug":"16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/","title":{"rendered":"16 environmental, health, and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

October 23, 2017<\/p>\n

The Hon. Kathleen Wynne Premier of Ontario
\nLegislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto ON M7A 1A1
\nVia email : premier@ontario.ca<\/p>\n

Dear Premier Wynne:<\/p>\n

Re: Bill 154, An Act to cut unnecessary red tape by enacting one new Act
\nand making various amendments and repeals<\/p>\n

We are writing to you to express our profound concerns regarding Bill 154, specifically the contents of Schedule 4.<\/p>\n

Section 2 of Schedule 4 imposes a \u201cone-for-one\u201d rule for the enactment of regulatory measures. Under this provision any \u201cadministrative burden\u201d to businesses as result of any new regulatory measures must be offset by a comparable reduction in the \u201cadministrative burden\u201d associated with existing regulatory measures.<\/p>\n

Section 2 of Schedule 4 effectively requires that an existing regulatory requirement be repealed or weakened before new requirements can be established. The implication is that new problems cannot be addressed through the regulatory process unless an existing regulation is removed. Stronger measures to address air pollution, cannot be adopted, for example, unless the laws around some other threat to human health or the environment, such as rules related to the provision of safe drinking water, are somehow weakened. Section 2 raises a very real concern that government officials will avoid these trade-offs and forgo enacting regulations to protect health and safety, even in the face of clear and pressing needs.<\/p>\n

The adoption of similar provisions in other jurisdictions has resulted in serious impacts on human health and safety. In the United Kingdom, for example, a similar rule is considered to have contributed to the U.K government\u2019s failure to adopt fire safety laws that could have prevented the death of 80 people in a deadly fire in Britain earlier this year.<\/p>\n

In the Ontario context, similar requirements were put in place by the former Progressive Conservative government. An independent public inquiry determined that these requirements contributed to the Walkerton tragedy, which resulted in seven deaths and caused 2,300 people to become ill as a result of drinking water contaminated with e-coli.<\/p>\n

In the United States, an even more aggressive \u201ctwo-for-one\u201d rule was adopted by the Trump Administration earlier this year through an Executive Order. The measure has been widely criticized by public interest organizations, academics and the media as constituting a dangerous threat to human health, safety and the environment. The Executive Order is currently the subject of legal and constitutional challenges before a U.S District Court.<\/p>\n

Given the serious implications of this provision for the health and safety of Ontarians, we strongly recommend that your government delete Schedule 4 from Bill 154.<\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n

Theresa McClenaghan<\/strong>, Executive Director,\u00a0Canadian Environmental Law Association<\/p>\n

Fred Hahn<\/strong>,\u00a0President,\u00a0Canadian Union of Public Employees<\/p>\n

Dr. Doris Grinspun<\/strong>,\u00a0Chief Executive Officer,\u00a0Registered Nurses\u2019 Association of Ontario<\/p>\n

Chris Buckley<\/strong>,\u00a0President,\u00a0Ontario Federation of Labour<\/p>\n

Franz Hartmann<\/strong>,\u00a0Executive Director,\u00a0Toronto Environmental Alliance<\/p>\n

Amber Ellis<\/strong>,\u00a0Executive Director,\u00a0Earthroots<\/p>\n

Eli Angen<\/strong>,\u00a0Regional Director, Ontario,\u00a0The Pembina Institute<\/p>\n

Kim Perrotta<\/strong>,\u00a0Executive Director,\u00a0Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment<\/p>\n

Jack Gibbons<\/strong>,\u00a0Chair,\u00a0Ontario Clean Air Alliance<\/p>\n

Joanna Kerr<\/strong>,\u00a0Executive Director,\u00a0Greenpeace Canada<\/p>\n

Janet Sumner<\/strong>,\u00a0Executive Director,\u00a0CPAWS Widlands League<\/p>\n

Tim Gray<\/strong>,\u00a0Executive Director,\u00a0Environmental Defence<\/p>\n

Brennain Lloyd<\/strong>,\u00a0Project Coordinator,\u00a0Northwatch<\/p>\n

Janet McKay<\/strong>,\u00a0Executive Director,\u00a0Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests<\/p>\n

Kaitlyn Mitchell<\/strong>,\u00a0Staff Lawyer,\u00a0Ecojustice<\/p>\n

Caroline Schultz<\/strong>,\u00a0Executive Director,\u00a0Ontario Nature<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

c. The Hon. Chris Ballard, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
\nThe Hon. Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
\nThe Hon. Kevin Flynn, Minister of Labour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 23, 2017 The Hon. Kathleen Wynne Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto ON M7A 1A1 Via email : premier@ontario.ca Dear Premier Wynne: Re: Bill 154, An Act to cut unnecessary red tape by enacting one new Act and making various amendments and repeals We are writing to you to express our profound…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-184","description-off"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n16 environmental, health, and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier - SCFP-Ontario<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"16 environmental, health, and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier - SCFP-Ontario\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"October 23, 2017 The Hon. Kathleen Wynne Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto ON M7A 1A1 Via email : premier@ontario.ca Dear Premier Wynne: Re: Bill 154, An Act to cut unnecessary red tape by enacting one new Act and making various amendments and repeals We are writing to you to express our profound…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCFP-Ontario\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/CUPEOntario\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-10-24T16:24:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1219\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"796\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Liam Bedard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@CUPEOntario\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CUPEOntario\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Liam Bedard\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/fr\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bc25f17c52f8823bd9e71e25c2438083\"},\"headline\":\"16 environmental, health, and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-10-24T16:24:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":579,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/Capture-1024x669.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Non classifi\u00e9(e)\"],\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/\",\"name\":\"16 environmental, health, and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier - SCFP-Ontario\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/fr\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/Capture-1024x669.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-10-24T16:24:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/fr\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bc25f17c52f8823bd9e71e25c2438083\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/Capture-1024x669.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/Capture-1024x669.png\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/fr\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"16 environmental, health, and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/fr\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/fr\\\/\",\"name\":\"SCFP-Ontario\",\"description\":\"B\u00e2tir Un Ontario Meilleur\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/fr\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/fr\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bc25f17c52f8823bd9e71e25c2438083\",\"name\":\"Liam Bedard\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cupe.on.ca\\\/fr\\\/author\\\/lbedardcupe-on-ca\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"16 environmental, health, and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier - SCFP-Ontario","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/","og_locale":"fr_FR","og_type":"article","og_title":"16 environmental, health, and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier - SCFP-Ontario","og_description":"October 23, 2017 The Hon. Kathleen Wynne Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto ON M7A 1A1 Via email : premier@ontario.ca Dear Premier Wynne: Re: Bill 154, An Act to cut unnecessary red tape by enacting one new Act and making various amendments and repeals We are writing to you to express our profound…","og_url":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/","og_site_name":"SCFP-Ontario","article_publisher":"https:\/\/facebook.com\/CUPEOntario","article_published_time":"2017-10-24T16:24:03+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1219,"height":796,"url":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Liam Bedard","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@CUPEOntario","twitter_site":"@CUPEOntario","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/"},"author":{"name":"Liam Bedard","@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/#\/schema\/person\/bc25f17c52f8823bd9e71e25c2438083"},"headline":"16 environmental, health, and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier","datePublished":"2017-10-24T16:24:03+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/"},"wordCount":579,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture-1024x669.png","articleSection":["Non classifi\u00e9(e)"],"inLanguage":"fr-FR"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/","url":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/","name":"16 environmental, health, and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier - SCFP-Ontario","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture-1024x669.png","datePublished":"2017-10-24T16:24:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/#\/schema\/person\/bc25f17c52f8823bd9e71e25c2438083"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"fr-FR","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"fr-FR","@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture-1024x669.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture-1024x669.png"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/16-environmental-health-labour-groups-raise-serious-concerns-bill-154-open-letter-premier\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"16 environmental, health, and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/","name":"SCFP-Ontario","description":"B\u00e2tir Un Ontario Meilleur","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"fr-FR"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/#\/schema\/person\/bc25f17c52f8823bd9e71e25c2438083","name":"Liam Bedard","url":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/author\/lbedardcupe-on-ca\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupe.on.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}