LILLEY: Quicker environmental assessments to get projects moving
(WorldNews Canada)

It took six years for Canada and its allies to fight the Second World War. Today, in Ontario, it can take that long to get a major project approved, and that’s just the environmental assessment. That, though, is about to change. The Ford government is about to undertake what it is calling the biggest changes to Ontario’s Environmental Assessment Act in its near 50-year history. Under the proposed changes, due to be laid out in legislation to be tabled at Queen’s Park on Tuesday, some projects that currently require environmental assessments will be exempt. For other major projects, the government hopes to cut that timeline down from six years to three...