Overall, the OCC finds that the Waste-Free Ontario Act to be broadly and imprecisely written, which has a dually problematic effect: causing confusion for those firms that will be subject to the Act and allowing for administrative decisions by government that may step outside of the understood intention of the legislation.
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s response to the Waste-Free Ontario Act that Food and Beverage Ontario provided input is linked below. The OCC appeared before the Standing Committee on Social Policy to give an oral presentation on this report.
