Another local MPP is voicing his support of the Local Municipality Democracy Act.
The Act, to be read a second time before the legislature this Thursday, is being proposed as a private members bill by Prince Edward – Hastings’ Conservative MPP, Todd Smith.
Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington’s Conservative MPP, Randy Hillier, says it’s time for a law such as this.
Hillier says, “the rights of municipal councils and local property owners to have direct input in the decision-making process on (green) projects is essential in a free and democratic society.”
The proposed Act would restore powers to municipal governments which were lost under the Liberals’ 2009 Green Energy Act.