ELORA – People are set to rally in Elora next week to call on the provincial government to protect Ontario parks, the Greenbelt, environment, farmland and endangered species.
“We’ve stopped Ford before and can do it again,” organizers state.
The rally is a call to stop Bill 5, or the Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act.
The bill is meant to fast-track major energy, infrastructure, mining and landfill projects, but opponents say it reduces transparency and public oversight, provides exemptions from provincial laws and regulations and archeological assessments, and reverses Ontario’s Endangered Species Act and replaces it with a new Species Conservation Act with reduced protections.
Organizers say the rally is also in defence of “democracy, Indigenous rights and labour laws.”
Protestors will meet at the Centre Wellington municipal office at 1 Macdonald Square at 1pm on Aug. 23 to listen to speakers, and then march to Bissell Park.
Organizers say everyone is welcome and they encourage people to “bring a placard with your message to the Ford government.”
The protest is set to go ahead rain or shine.
