Reducing red tape and simplifying policies, while protecting public health and safety

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the need to move quickly in response, has made it easier to identify which regulations and processes are essential, and which are unnecessary red tape preventing government from moving more efectively and efciently. Based on what we’ve learned, the Action Plan will simplify processes and policies to make life easier for the people and businesses of Ontario while ensuring appropriate protections are in place. This will save businesses money, while letting them spend more time on their business and less time on unnecessary paperwork.

Projects

  1. Development and Construction Approvals

    Getting shovels in the ground faster on transit and housing projects by further reducing barriers to development and construction approvals through digital application processes, instituting minimum service standards and undertaking a review to fnd ways to simplify the process, while protecting the environment.

  2. Compliance Modernization: Making Regulation Smarter

    Help businesses understand and comply with regulations and streamline regulatory enforcement. Coordinate all inspectors’ visits to a factory or worksite in the most efcient manner possible and consolidate the number of visits, instead of subjecting businesses to multiple, uncoordinated days of inspections that slow productivity.

  3. Reduce Red Tape

    Untangle Ontario’s permitting requirements by eliminating duplication between ministries as well as with other levels of government and increasing predictability for approvals for business while ensuring the protection of the environment and public health and safety.