I know your party has raised concerns about this, and respectfully, we don't agree. Let me explain why. I urge you to reconsider your concern.
There should be timelines for action so that consultations don't go on forever. On the other hand, we do not have any good accessibility standards in Canada in the major areas we're discussing. We have building codes, but respectfully, they're all somewhere between lousy and close to lousy when it comes to accessibility. They're up to date as of maybe early last century. If you build a building that complies with the Ontario Building Code, you can readily be creating barriers in that building. We've released videos—which have gone viral—documenting this in brand new buildings using public money.
It's the same when it comes to any number of other areas. The standards in Ontario—and my coalition has been in the lead lobbying on these—are, in all cases, helpful but woefully inadequate. There are some areas internationally where there are standards that can be learned from and adopted, but we do need a process here whereby we look at what's been done here or elsewhere, decide where they're helpful and replicate that, or decide they're too weak and do better. You can't do that at the drop of a hat. That doesn't mean doing it for ridiculously long timelines, but we need to take the time to get it right.
I know there has been some criticism that this bill is just mandating a bunch of new consultations. In fairness, I think that overstates the case. It's not that the standards are out there and we can just copy and paste them and they're ready go. Too often, that's just not the case.