{"id":1201,"date":"2025-10-03T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:01:04","slug":"is-the-economy-more-important-than-the-law-the-ontario-governments-radical-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"Is the economy more important than the law? The Ontario government&#8217;s radical plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Ford government\u00a0is promising that its controversial law allowing new special economic zones in Ontario will only be used in a \u201cnarrow set of circumstances,\u201d and projects that receive provincial exemptions must present the \u201cutmost importance to Ontario\u2019s economy and security.\u201d<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Months after passing the legislation, commonly known as\u00a0Bill 5, Ontario unveiled a set of draft regulations meant to guide Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet as they choose which areas of the province should be designated as special economic zones.<\/p>\n<p>Those zones, which the province currently defines as \u201ca geographically bounded area within the province\u201d where significant economic activities are or will be taking place, could potentially be exempt from certain provincial laws in order to fast-track economic priority projects.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have slammed Bill 5 as a \u201cpower grab\u201d by the premier, whose government, they claim, is looking to create \u201cno law zones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The province, however, contends that in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s tariff war with Canada, the province needs to expedite projects \u2014 such as extracting critical minerals in the Ring of Fire\u2013 to create new domestic supply chains and boost the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Ford government\u00a0is promising that its controversial law allowing new special economic zones in Ontario will only be used in a \u201cnarrow set of circumstances,\u201d and projects that receive provincial exemptions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molidicac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}