Courtesy of Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships Ontario Minister of Infrastructure Laurie Scott speaks during P3 2019: The 27th Annual CCPPP National Conference at the Sheraton Toronto Centre Hotel on Nov. 19, 2019. TORONTO — The Ontario government will change its environmental assessment process and procure land for transit projects more quickly, the infrastructure minister said Tuesday. “The current environmental assessment process system has proven cumbersome and the land assembly system susceptible to delays,” Minister Laurie Scott told the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships conference, P319, at a downtown Toronto hotel. The changes won’t sacrifice environmental protections, Scott told the business audience. “To be clear, we are not talking about relaxing any environmental protections, we are simply improving the speed and efficiency of the process.”None of the actual requirements for environmental assessment will change, Scott told HuffPost Canada in an interview.

Source: Huffington Post November 19, 2019 17:32 UTC