Climate Change

New climate economy
The party states that:

– Ontario needs honest, ambitious climate action now, and that the path forward is laid out in its ambitious, honest and achievable climate plan, one that relies on bold action – not half-measures – to get the province to real net-zero emissions by 2045.
– the provincial economy is missing out while the government doubles down on gas plants and urban sprawl, scraps renewable energy contracts, goes to court over carbon pricing, and snubs cash incentives to make EVs affordable for the average person.
– if the province wants to attract jobs and investment in the trillion dollar clean economy, it needs to show that it is a province that takes climate change seriously.  It is possible to create hundreds of thousands of jobs retrofitting our buildings, manufacturing EVs, and creating low-carbon products and technologies.
– it is also committed to preserving nature within the province as the provinces’s best defence against climate change and moving to a zero-waste economy.
– the province can also support farmers on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Agriculture must be part of solutions to the climate crisis. It calls for protections and investments to help local food systems thrive.
– Ontario communities and infrastructure were never built to withstand the extreme weather events that are becoming common and more intense with each passing year.  It is necessary to support municipalities in adaptation.
– it is also necessary to work with Indigenous communities to protect and restore nature, which will reduce climate pollution and help us adapt to extreme weather events.
– addressing climate pollution is also an opportunity to improve our overall health and well-being. Even meeting the comparatively modest federal climate targets would save about 112,081 lives between 2030 and 2050 due to air quality improvements alone.

The party states that:
– year after year, scientists tell us that we need to urgently phase out fossil fuels. Governments make promises about cutting emissions, and then make policy decisions that do the opposite.
– it advocates ending the oil-based economy and introducing the first Zero Carbon Law that will keep Ontario within its fair share of the world’s total remaining carbon budget.  It further advocates ending fuel subsidies immediately, and joining other provinces by adopting Zero Emission Vehicle standards and positioning Ontario at the forefront of the EV revolution, from mining to manufacturing.
– incentives for green building retrofits will create good jobs, reduce climate pollution and help people save money by saving energy.

The party advocates:

– phasing out fossil fuels by establishing a Fair Share Carbon Budget for Ontario for the rest of this century and incorporating a legal annual reporting requirement on progress and pollution reduction plans; cutting carbon pollution in half by 2030 and hitting real net zero by 2045, taking over administration of the federal carbon fee system and increasing the price by $25 until it reaches $300/tonne in 2032. All carbon fee revenues collected from individuals would be returned to individuals as dividends; working with the federal government to establish border carbon adjustments to create a level playing field for Ontario’s low-carbon producers; eliminating fossil fuels from electricity generation the fastest way compatible with the province’s fair share carbon budget, aiming to phase out fossil gas by 2030; and stopping new gas hookups and new fossil fuel.

– moving to renewable, clean energy sources, including doubling Ontario’s electricity supply by 2040 and making Ontario’s electricity emission-free as quickly as possible in order to electrify transportation and buildings with clean energy; allowing homes and businesses with renewables to earn credits toward energy use for excess energy production; electrifying everything practicable, including buildings, transport and industrial energy; negotiating to buy and/or exchange power with Quebec if both power and transmission are available at a reasonable price; adding least 7500 MW of short- and medium-term storage to help our electrical grid run smoothly; not building new uranium mines or nuclear plants that add to the huge pile of dangerous nuclear waste that has already been in “temporary” storage for 50 years; and shutting down the aged Pickering Nuclear Plant as scheduled or earlier if continued operation is unsafe.

– increasing access to electric vehicles and charging infrastructure by increasing demand for new low-emission vehicles with cash incentives up to $10,000 for buying a fully electric vehicle and $1,000 for an e-bike or used electric vehicle; phasing out the sale of new gas and diesel passenger vehicles, medium-duty trucks, and buses by 2030; requiring trucks in urban areas to be 50% Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEV) by 2030 and 100% ZEV by 2040; making electric charging infrastructure, including increasing the number of fast-charging stations on every 400 series highway rest stop; requiring all new or re-surfaced parking areas (public and private) to install EV charging, providing a tax incentive for businesses to install charging infrastructure; requiring existing parking lots and garages (public or private, above ground or below) to install access to EV charging in 25% of spots by 2024, 50% by 2030, and 75% by 2035; and amending the the building code so that new homes are EV charging ready; and creating EV supply chains to grow jobs and businesses in Ontario.

– making buildings energy efficient by creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs by retrofitting 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net-zero (conservation plus heat pump and solar, for example) by 2030 and 100% by 2040 to help people save money by saving energy; amending the the Building Code, so all new commercial and residential buildings are built with the lowest carbon footprint possible and net zero by 2028; providing net-zero retrofit grants for non-profit housing providers, co-ops and low-income households to lower their energy costs and consumption; releasing the pent-up demand for green retrofits by ensuring owners and tenants have access to low-cost financing and incentives to insulate and electrify their home, both reducing energy bills and protecting Ontarians from international energy price jumps; encouraging the use of sustainable and non-toxic building materials, and removing regulatory obstacles to mass timber construction using FSC-certified wood; making building-level fossil fuel use transparent through labelling and disclosure; and establishing strong, integrated conservation programs for electricity, gas and water, including ensuring that multi-unit buildings improve energy efficiency and install individual meters for every unit.

– leading by example, including setting aggressive GHG targets for provincial government operations, and expanding pollution reduction programs to include hospitals, schools, universities, and other public institutions; putting a strong climate lens on all government decisions, including a shadow carbon price on capital investments; eliminating fossil fuel use in new and renovated government buildings by 2025, and in all government buildings by 2030; and requiring all large public and private organizations to disclose and reduce their carbon footprint and climate-related financial risks.

– supporting municipalities to be climate leaders, including providing municipalities and practitioners with knowledge, technical expertise, resources, and training via a Green Infrastructure Support Hub; attracting private investment into municipal and commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy programs (PACE, also called Local Improvement Charges) with seed capital and a provincial loan-loss guarantee; allowing municipalities to borrow money to make municipally owned buildings more efficient and pay the loans back out of the savings; requiring all municipalities to adopt plans for reducing corporate and community emissions as far as possible to net-zero by 2045, and giving them the authority and tools to implement them, including longterm, predictable funding; and restoring the 50% provincial cost-share for transit operations and supporting electrification plans for all municipal transit systems.

Species, Diversity & Wildlife
The party advocates:

– protecting biodiversity by restoring the original Endangered Species Act, 2007 and a science-based system for determining species status, recovery, and habitat protection while eliminating exemptions for industry; properly funding and supporting endangered species recovery efforts and habitat stewardship programs; cancelling the the Species at Risk Conservation Fund (aka “Pay to Slay”) that allows businesses to simply offset their harm to biodiversity by paying into the fund; protecting pollinators by ending the outdoor  use of neonicotinoid pesticides; and restoring the pesticide advisory committee; and regulating new outdoor lighting to include dark sky protection.

– strengthening animal welfare rules, including banning the breeding, possession, use, and sale of wild exotic animals as pets and implementing a more comprehensive licensing system for zoo facilities housing exotic wild animals; banning road-side zoos and prohibiting inhumane and unsafe animal-visitor interactions as per the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums guidelines; enhancing animal welfare standards for animal agriculture; implementing more robust regulations and inspections of the housing, sale, and transport of agricultural animals and ensure enforcement; opposing the use of furs on ornamental, except by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit persons, and where such use is protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; and repealing all provincial breed-specific legislation.

Conservation & Sustainable Development

As priorities within its platform, the party advocates:
– permanently protecting prime farmland, wetlands and conserve 30% of nature by 2030.
– providing $1B in funding for Indigenous climate leadership including Indigenous protected and conserved areas.
– making infrastructure climate ready with a $2B adaptation fund for municipalities.
– establishing a transparent annual carbon budget to reach net zero by 2045.
– electrifying transportation, buildings and industry to crush pollution and lower energy costs.
– providing up to $15,000 in incentives for homeowners for energy retrofits to help people save money by saving energy.

Urban Sprawl

The party states that:
– urban sprawl – paving over nature – costs more than other options because it increases flooding and takes necessary investments to replace what nature does for free. It also eats up farmland, which is disappearing at an alarming rate.
– sprawl also costs more in taxes, adds to traffic congestion and increases air pollution and other types of environmental damage.
– expert data suggests that sprawl is unnecessary, that there is no need to expand beyond our current growth boundaries right now because we already have enough land set aside for development.  What is needed instead is smart development that encourages the use of land wisely in order to build vibrant neighbourhoods with a mix of housing types – such as laneway houses, single family homes, triplexes, quadruplexes, walk-ups, condos, and co-ops.
– an essential part of any community is small business. It wants to make it easier for small businesses to succeed.  For those who live in urban cities, rural hamlets or somewhere in between, communities can have local shops, services and parks that are close by and easy to get to.

The party advocates:

– promoting smart growth by freezing urban boundaries; developing a “15-minute” neighbourhood framework that suits a variety of towns and cities across the province by working with municipalities on rezoning; reversing the current government’s changes to the Growth Plan that encourage sprawl and revise the Growth Plan to promote healthy density; and requiring that intensification targets are met with distributed density throughout urbanised areas.

– building infill housing near transit, including 1.5M homes in a variety of innovative forms within urban boundaries over the next 10 years; updating the Planning Act, Provincial Policy Statement and other applicable laws and regulations to expand zoning permissions to allow for triplexes and fourplexes as-of-right within existing urban boundaries; updating planning laws to prezone for missing middle and mid-rise housing on transit corridors and main streets; requiring minimum housing densities at transit stations and along transit corridors as part of the Growth Plan and transit funding agreements between the province and municipalities; working with all levels of government to transform appropriate publicly owned land for affordable housing, such as above transit facilities and in transit station surface parking lots; reinstating the provincial brownfield remediation fund to support municipalities to safely build affordable housing on previously industrial sites; developing a framework that encourages the construction of housing on commercial properties, such as abandoned plazas and warehouses, where safe and appropriate; and ending mandatory minimum parking requirements for all new developments when they are constructed.

-ensuring inclusive community consultation, by working collaboratively with municipalities on a province-wide “Yes, in My Backyard” initiative to raise awareness of the benefits of infill housing within existing neighbourhoods; encouraging municipalities to meaningfully engage with prospective residents, not only current residents, when consulting on zoning changes and new developments to ensure all voices are heard during the planning process; and exploring innovative approaches to planning consultation that ensure processes are genuinely inclusive and meaningfully engage all citizens. For example, engaging people in community locations that they frequent such as coffee shops or transit stops, or providing childcare to ensure broader community participation.

– strengthening community hubs by increased funding for local libraries and ramping up publicity around the important community programming that they offer; increasing support for community centres and neighbourhood coalitions, which play an important role in encouraging community connections and reducing isolation for elders; restoring improving communication and outreach, and providing reduced fees for the community use of schools to ensure their availability as important hubs in our communities; providing free and low-cost community programming in high-needs neighbourhoods, including but not limited to covering costs for free evening, weekend, March break, and summer permits; and investing in more Youth Wellness Hubs and community centres that offer access to local mental health services, spaces for social interaction, and supports for families

– creating vibrant neighbourhoods by supporting municipalities to create infill greenspaces so that there is one within a 10 minute walk of all homes by 2030; amending zoning rules to allow for small businesses such as corner stores to open within residential neighbourhoods; providing start-up funding for community-owned healthy food markets and increasing support for community gardens through land gifts and organisational support to eliminate urban food deserts; improving the community benefits system for major infrastructure projects to increase the social and economic benefit  received by the local community.

– helping small neighbourhood businesses recover and thrive by expanding the Digital Main Street program to include nonprofit organisations and provide fulfilment platforms that better enable small, local businesses to compete with large online companies; developing a small business grant program for Black-owned businesses; supporting the increased staycation tax credit and ensuring it includes dining at restaurants; working with insurance providers to develop an affordable commercial insurance program for small businesses; developing a program to help COVID-affected small businesses file for bankruptcy in a fair and non-punitive way; improving opportunities for small local businesses and nonprofits to win public contracts through targets and by decreasing current financial and informational barriers; allowing Ontario’s craft spirits, brewers, and wine producers to open independent, off-site stores; and allowing boutique wine, craft beer and artisan spirit retail outlets; improving the distribution network to work for small businesses; and allowing access for hospitality to purchase from these suppliers at a wholesale price of up to 20%.

– creating a new regulatory framework for small business, by undertaking a review of regulations in order to weed out red tape and costs that disproportionately affect small businesse; creating standardised leases to ensure fairness and transparency and ensure thatpriority is given to existing tenants when leases are up for renewal; creating rent control guidelines for year-over-year increases that apply to all commercial tenants, including new tenants; and implementing a mechanism to enforce rules and resolve disputes.

– supporting local arts and social enterprises, by decreasing land taxes payable for buildings in which below market rent opportunities are available to creative and social enterprises; developing a made-in-Ontario social enterprise strategy with the nonprofit and cooperative sectors to drive local job creation and support rural, remote, and urban self-reliance; creating a stabilisation fund for the non-profit sector to ensure that nonprofits and charities can help rebuild the economy and communities; affirming the arms-length operations of, and increase investment in, the Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Trillium Foundation; and reinstating support for the Indigenous Culture Fund.

Conservation

The party states that:
– Ontario’s wetlands, forests and watersheds help make it special, and are key in keeping the province’s air and water clean and protecting the good soil needed for provincial growth.
– protecting the provinces natural heritage helps preserve biodiversity and directly affects some of Ontario’s most important economic sectors: tourism, forestry, food, and farming.
– to combat climate change, the province’s natural ecosystems provide its best low cost solutions to maintaining a clean water supply and providing flood protection.
– it advocates expanding the Greenbelt by adding a new Bluebelt that protects our supply of clean water.

In particular, the party advocates:

– protecting at least 30% of provincial lands and water by 2030, by working with Indigenous communities to establish Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) where Indigenous governments have the primary role in protecting and conserving ecosystems through their laws, governance and knowledge systems; permanently protecting protect Provincially Significant Wetlands, Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest and Provincial Wildlife Areas on Crown land; protrecting and restoring natural areas that sequester carbon and protect biodiversity, including grasslands and peatlands, old growth forests, and ecological corridors between protected areas; strengthening and funding the ecological integrity role of Ontario’s public parks system and creating five new provincial parks; strengthening the Greenbelt Act and making new highways through the Greenbelt illegal; rewarding sustainable forestry and land management practices that protect the Boreal forest; and enhancing nce urban tree canopy targets and improving legal protection for urban trees, including dedicating 15% of the existing infrastructure funding for green infrastructure, including urban forests.

– protecting provincial source water by doubling the size of the Greenbelt to include a Bluebelt of protected moraines, river systems, and watersheds that includes the Paris Galt Moraine, CarruthersCreek, Grand River Watershed, and many other critical bodies of water; working with Indigenous Peoples and the federal government to establish National Marine Conservation Areas in Hudson and James Bay, and in the Great Lakes; implementing a plan for cutting phosphorus entering Lake Simcoe to 44 tonnes and supporting the creation of a phosphorus recycling facility; restoring provincial funding for source water protection under the Clean Water Act and expanding drinking water source protection to northern, remote and Indigenous communities; and bringing back oversight and public consultation to reduce flooding and protect people and the places we love, including mandating vegetated setbacks along lakes, rivers, flood plains and drains.

– promoting sustainable water use, including fixing the Permit to Take Water process to stop industrial water extraction and ban bulk removal of water from a watershed, and restoring municipal regulation of aggregate extraction below the water table; adding water usage to reporting obligations for large buildings and the public sector; incentivizing water conservation and reuse, such as greywater systems in households; and requiring multi-unit residential and commercial buildings to install water metres.

– reducing waste by setting high recycling and management standards for printed paper and packaging (Blue Box) materials, and a minimum standard of 85% for plastic packaging by 2030; adopting clear, stringent, and enforceable extended producer responsibility standards for waste and packaging generated at workplaces, schools, and in public places – the sectors responsible for the majority of Ontario’s waste; expanding the federal government’s list of banned single-use plastics to include water bottles, coffee cups and other unnecessary packaging; ensuring a broad range of right to repair legislation to extend the life of goods and protect purchasers; banning food waste from landfills or incinerators and expanding food waste collection to all municipalities across the province; setting targets to significantly reduce provincial material and consumption footprints; and track and report on progress; and setting required minimum use of recycled aggregates in infrastructure projects as well as providing research and education; funding to ensure that all reclaimed concrete material can be re-engineered and re-used as effectively as possible.

Stewardship of Creation

To build needed infrastructure while protecting the environment, the party advocates:
– investing in municipal and regional road repair and maintenance, widening provincial highways in congested areas, upgrading winter maintenance of key provincial highways, fixing and repairing bridges and add turning lanes where needed.
– reducing gridlock and investing in much-needed provincial projects, such as uploading and expanding the Ottawa LRT, electrifying and increasing GO service throughout the GTA and southwestern Ontario, and expediting the delivery of planned transit projects in Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto, Mississauga and Brampton.
– axing the current government’s carbon tax and developing a Made in Ontario environmental action plan in conjunction with the federal government and other provinces that protects Ontario’s land, water, air, biodiversity and communities.
– protecting prime farmland, including the Greenbelt and championing a sustainable agri-food sector to support farmers and rural communities.
– leveraging the Better Communities Fund to keep municipalities whole and keep property taxes low.

Climate Change

The party has published no current official statement regarding its policies concerning climate change.

Prior to the last election, the party stated that:
– Ontarians are proud of their natural heritage, and know that their well-being relies on the health of the environment, and that it believes that the transition to a green, low-carbon economy must be fair, and not leave communities behind.
– Ontario and Canada face a climate crisis.  Scientists are clear that global temperature increases must be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid catastrophic consequences linked to climate change.  To do its part, Ontario must dramatically reduce GHG emissions.
– it will not be persuaded that resolving the climate crisis is impossible, or unaffordable.
– future generations are depending on us to plan ahead.
– its Green New Democratic Deal is a bold and practical plan to address the urgency of the climate crisis while at the same time revitalizing the provincial economy, protecting workers, and creating millions of good, well-paying jobs.

Energy & Resources

To fight the rising cost of living, the party advocates:
– ensuring an abundant supply of reliable and affordable energy, towards a legislated target of achieving a net-zero economy no later than 2050, including making evidence-based and cost-effective investments in clean energy and efficiency from a mix of non-emitting sources, storage and conservation.
– completing long-planned priority transmission investments to deliver abundant clean energy to expanding industries, such as auto manufacturers and greenhouse growers.
– providing free or discounted electric heat pumps to Ontario households, with access to easy interest-free financing. Heat pump rebates of up to $19,500 will be available depending on household income, with an additional $5,000 available for households that heat with propane, heating oil, or coal.
– enhancing Ontario’s SaveONEnergy Energy Affordability program to provide retrofit support to renters and low-income households, ensuring fair access to Ontario’s energy savings programs.
– helping Ontario drivers make the switch to EVs to save money and support Ontario’s auto sector, with income-tested rebates towards the purchase of an eligible new or used battery-electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid.
– exempting Electric Vehicles produced overseas from incentives where corporate leadership are hell-bent on destroying the Canadian economy.
– reducing energy costs for struggling households, especially those in rural and Northern Ontario, with on-bill rate relief for lower-income households that heat with gas, oil or other fuels — to bridge them to conversion to more affordable electric heating, similar to the existing Ontario Electricity Support Program; and providing monthly financial support to help cover heating costs as well as access to emergency financial assistance for those at risk of being cut off by their fuel distributors.

Mining
To protect Ontario jobs, the party advocates:
– supporting a strong Ontario mining sector, and the tens of thousands of good jobs it provides. In place of the piecemeal and bulldozer-first approach of prior governments, which has failed to develop the Ring of Fire, it proposes beginning a formal consultation process with the Matawa Tribal Council First Nations members, and other impacted First Nations on decisions related to the Ring of Fire to create generational infrastructure, jobs, and revenue sharing opportunities in the North, and help get critical minerals to power Ontario’s future.

Conservation & Sustainable Development

As a part of its program for building new affordable homes available, the party advocates:
– updating zoning and planning rules to make it easier and cheaper to build all types of new homes, including legalizing more affordable options like semis, townhomes and fourplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrises near transit as-of-right.
– protecting Greenbelt, and Ontario’s prime farmland, by focusing growth sustainably and cost-effectively within the pre-2022 urban boundaries, keeping infrastructure costs down in the process.

To protect Ontario jobs, the party advocates:
– establishing Ontario’s first Youth Climate Corps, giving opportunities to young Ontarians to learn skills and earn a fair wage while helping Ontario communities reduce their emissions, restore their natural environments, and become more resilient in a changing climate.

 As of 23 February 2025, four days prior to the election it called, the party has published no comprehensive updated statement of its proposed policies. 

Climate Change

The party’s constitution states that as a matter of principle it believes in and accepts its responsibilities for the preservation of Ontario’s heritage and cultural diversity and the conservation and renewal of the environment for present and future generations.

Prior to its current term in office, the party advocated:
– in order to put more money in taxpayers’ pockets, scrapping the carbon tax and the Green Energy Act, and reducing gas prices by 10 cents per litre.
– challenging any attempt by the federal government to impose a carbon tax on Ontario families in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Carbon taxes

As a part of a program to make life more affordable for Ontarians, the party’s 2024 budget states that:
– it is committed to protecting people and businesses from the high costs of a new and unexpected provincial carbon pricing program, by introducing legislation that would require the provincial government to first ask the people of Ontario, via a referendum, before implementing a new provincial carbon pricing program.
– it also continues to call on the federal government to eliminate the federal carbon tax, which has increased inflation and made life less affordable for Ontarians.

Energy & Resources

On February 10, 2025, the party published an online statement that it would protect Ontario’s energy grid by banning China from energy procurements, by:

– banning any Chinese state-owned enterprise from buying or taking equity in any Ontario government funded energy, critical mineral or major infrastructure asset.
– investing in clean nuclear energy to fuel economic growth while reducing emissions, including:

• Developing Ontario’s first integrated energy plan, including all energy resources such as hydroelectricity, natural gas and other fuels.
• Refurbishing existing nuclear energy generation at the Pickering and Darlington generating stations, expanding nuclear energy generation at Bruce Power, exploring new nuclear energy generation in Port Hope, and building Canada’s first small modular reactors at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station.
• Refurbishing and expanding hydroelectricity generation, including supporting Ontario Power Generation’s $4 billion investments in hydroelectricity generation in Niagara and in Northern and Eastern Ontario.
• Securing the largest battery energy storage procurement in Canadian history, with enough storage to power three million homes.
• Building new energy transmission infrastructure across Ontario.

Conservation, Sustainable Development, Species, Diversity & Wildlife

Prior to its current term in office, the party advocated:
– hiring more conservation officers and increasing policing of major polluters.
– ending bureaucratic review of the Ring of Fire project, to allow it to proceed.
– to stimulate growth in the North, moving forward with revenue sharing from mining, forestry, and aggregates.
– ensure that hunting and fishing revenues go toward their stated purpose of conservation.
– setting up an emissions-reduction fund to invest in new technologies within the province.
– committing resources to reduce garbage in neighborhoods and parks.

Provincial Parks
In its 2024 Budget, the party states that:
– it is actively taking steps to open the first new, all‐season, operating provincial park in 40 years. The Bigwind Lake Provincial Park, located near the Town of Bracebridge, will offer facilities and recreational activities including swimming, hiking, cross-country skiing, and add around 250 new campsites to the Ontario Parks system.
– it is also creating the province’s first urban provincial park in the Township of Uxbridge, which will serve as a year‐round day‐use provincial park and support Ontario’s progress on its commitment to provide families with more outdoor recreational opportunities while conserving and protecting areas of natural and scientific interest.  A survey was conducted in summer 2023 to seek public input on the programming and activities that could be enjoyed in the proposed park, and will explore further opportunities for partnerships for additional urban parks for the people of Ontario.
– it is enhancing recreational opportunities by also implementing a number of other initiatives, including bringing electrical services to over 800 campsites and creating approximately 300 new campsites across several provincial parks.

Conservation Partnerships
In its 2024 Budget, the party states that:
– spending time in nature and green spaces has a positive impact on a person’s health and well‐being.
– it is committed to continuing to work with partners and conservation leaders to preserve more areas of significant ecological importance, protect natural areas and promote the importance of healthy, natural spaces.
– it is continuing the Greenlands Conservation Partnership program by investing an additional $20 million over four year, to allow conservation partners to raise matching private‐sector contributions to secure new, privately owned natural areas, such as wetlands, grasslands and forests, as well as ensure they are protected and managed for the future.
– protecting provincial lakes is a key commitment in the government’s plan to help ensure a safe, healthy and clean environment now and for future generations.
– the Holland Marsh area produces more carrots, celery, onions, lettuce and greens than any other single region across Canada.
– it is supporting farmers to implement technologies and food washing processes that reduce the amount of phosphorus in the water that flows into Lake Simcoe.
– it is continuing to protect and restore the Great Lakes through annual investments of $6.4 million to support innovative projects. These projects are led by community‐based organizations, small businesses, municipalities, conservation authorities and Indigenous communities, which focus on protecting and restoring coastal, shoreline and nearshore areas of the Great Lakes and connecting rivers and streams.
– it is also allocating over $24 million towards the innovative Lake Simcoe Phosphorus Reduction Strategy for a new phosphorus recycling project to help reduce phosphorus discharges from the Holland River into Lake Simcoe.