I might start with the first part of your question, which is whether you need specialized help to access the provisions in the bill.
That is definitely not the case in Ontario. On the contrary, as I mentioned, this is a great leveller. Yes, we can run workshops, but even without workshops people can very easily get on the registry and start to watch the notices for their community, start to watch the proposed pieces of legislation and regulations in a ministry they're interested in, and start to make submissions.
It turns out that those submissions, whether you're talking about something significant like a whole new statute, or something really specific like an instrument for a facility in a community, are very much influenced by the things the members of the public say. By and large, the tens of thousands of submissions that have been made under the Ontario system have come from individual citizens. Only a fraction of those have been assisted by CELA, Ecojustice, and other environmental groups. It's been an extremely important statute for Ontario. It would almost be unthinkable now to imagine that these decisions could proceed without this kind of access.
Without using up too much time, I will say that in terms of the broader civil remedies, the Ontario remedy is vastly underused, because it has very onerous thresholds about whether anyone could prove harm to a public resource, which is one of the tests. It's pleaded now and then, but has not made its way into any decisions.
Our advice would be that you don't make it so onerous that it's worthless to people. It needs to be something that has a real chance of affecting outcomes.