• 4. Pharmacists

  Allow pharmacists to prescribe certain medications for certain minor ailments.

• 5. Ofsetting Requirements

  Currently, the government is required to ofset every $1 of businesses’ administrative costs by $1.25 in savings. A review of this existing ofsetting requirement is underway to further reduce undue burdens on businesses.

• 6. Regulatory Impact Assessment

  Publish Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) publicly to increase government transparency and receive feedback from business owners and the public. The RIA is a cost-beneft document that ministries prepare when proposing new requirements for business.

• 7. Burden Reduction Directive

  Establish a Burden Reduction Directive to make sure that government follows mandatory red tape reduction rules and goals.

• 8. Invest Ontario Agency

  Accelerate economic recovery by creating Invest Ontario agency that will include greater business development and deal structuring expertise and build on the many benefts of investing in Ontario.

• 9. Doing Business in Ontario

  Make it easier to do business in Ontario by aligning regulatory policies to those of other leading jurisdictions.

   

Meet Liam

Liam is a small business owner, frustrated with the number of hoops he needs to jump through to maintain and expand his business. He has also had to halt services multiple times a year for various inspections. Now that the government is streamlining regulatory enforcement, Liam will be able to run his company with fewer interruptions, all while maintaining the same health and safety standards the people of Ontario expect.