Engaging Provincial Solutions
Big problems call for big solutions. And big solutions require co-operation, collaboration and comprehensiveness. In this part of the Annual Report, the ECO highlights several environmental issues that require thinking, planning and engaging solutions at the provincial scale.
First, we consider opportunities for improving the health of the Great Lakes. Ontario has incredible potential to show leadership and make progress on this multi-jurisdictional issue. However, to even keep up with encouraging developments in the United States on this issue, the Ontario government must engage the many solutions that lie within its control.
Next, the ECO reviews the Far North Act, 2010, which puts in motion the government’s promise to engage with First Nations and conduct land use planning in Ontario’s Far North. Within this article, the ECO also discusses two subjects related to planning in the Far North: concerns that the province’s energy policy could allow hydroelectric development to compromise land use planning; and the government’s new Growth Plan for Northern Ontario, 2011, which shall guide decision making and investment planning in northern Ontario over the next 25 years.
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| This is an article from the 2010/11 Annual Report to the Legislature from the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario. |
Citing This Article:
Environmental Commissioner of Ontario. 2011. "Engaging Provincial Solutions." Engaging Solutions, ECO Annual Report, 2010/11. Toronto: The Queen's Printer for Ontario. 7.
