That's right, Kathleen Wynne's Liberals are at it again. Flowery populism based around heavy bureaucracy, a lack of vision and no tangible outcome. Sounds like more of the same.
Here's what the Ontario Liberals new Bill 36, Local Foods Act, looks like:
- The legislation would require at least 25 per cent of food served in 1,500 government buildings, such as hospitals, to be locally produced.
- An Ontario government policy requiring provincial ministries to consider local food for procurement under $25,000.
- Encouragement for local food funding projects and innovation.
- Proclamation of a Local Food Week in Ontario, replacing Ontario Agriculture Week (est. 1998).
- Required government reports on activities to support local food.
Oh good, more red tape. Probably more public money shelled into the reporting, and a whole slew of nothing. Whats more, the directives for reporting above have no specified quotas/targets, and won't for a long while, if ever. How effective...
Didn't Tim Hudak and the PC caucus already issue a proposed second food terminal to deal with many of the issues above in an effective manner, rather than more superfluous research and reporting?
Between this and the proposed tolls on Toronto public roads, this seems to be another run of McGuinty tax, spend and waste politics. Just what we, the taxpayers, really need.
This province needs a change.
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