Ontario’s Environment Commissioner says some of the moves being made by the new Ford Government are hurting Indigenous communities.
In her annual report, Diane Saxe says First Nations were involved in 10-projects, which were cancelled when the government scrapped the Green Energy Act.
Saxe says those communities spent a lot of time and energy on green energy projects and were counting on those initiatives to bring money, jobs, self-reliance and dignity to their community.
She stresses reconciliation is a very important mandate for all of us and environmental justice has to be part of that.
Saxe adds corporations like stability when they look at making long term capital plans, so the cancellation of over 700 green energy projects creates a lot of uncertainty for investing in Ontario.
