Stop Bill 5 Court Challenge and Campaign Fund

Bill 5, which was passed by the Ontario PC Party government last June, is a mad, dictator-like power grab by Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet ministers.

Bill 5, which enacted a new law called the Special Economic Zones Act (SEZA), is dangerously undemocratic as it gives Ford’s cabinet unconstitutional, king-like powers to change any law without a review or vote of approval by Ontario’s legislature, and also proposes to prohibit anyone from going to court to challenge Ford’s abuses of power.

Bill 5 gives Ford unprecedented control over Ontario, including the power to set up “special economic zones” and allow individuals and big businesses operating and building things in those zones to violate provincial and municipal laws that protect the environment, communities and workers.

Please donate now on this page to support Democracy Watch’s court case, filed in coalition with four other organizations, challenging Bill 5 and to support Democracy Watch’s ongoing campaign for key changes to stop power abuses by the Prime Minister and provincial and territorial premiers.

Democracy Watch and its coalition partner groups are represented in the court case challenging the Bill 5 Special Economic Zones Act by lawyers from Ecojustice, a national environmental law charity.

We are aiming to raise $85,000 to cover the costs of what could be a long court battle and campaign to stop power abuses by the PM and premiers.

Doug Ford and his PC Party-connected cronies will fight long and hard to give themselves maximum power to hand out even more boondoggle favours to big business executives and their lobbyists who fundraise and do other favours for Ford’s PC Party like they did in the Greenbelt scandal.

Please help Democracy Watch and its coalition partner organizations fight back in court to stop Doug Ford’s mad, dictator-like power grab and continue campaigning for key changes to stop power abuses by the PM and premiers.

Please also click here now to send your letter calling on the Ontario government to repeal this law, and the federal government to also repeal similar measures enacted by federal Bill C-5 and budget Bill C-15, and for other key changes to stop abuses of power by the Prime Minister and provincial premiers.

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