TORONTO – Ontario Place for All recently filed an application with the Divisional Court seeking an injunction prohibiting the Government of Ontario from proceeding with its West Island Redevelopment proposal at Ontario Place including its “mega spa” development.
They are asking the court to order a full environmental assessment of the entire project, which the Ontario government has refused to do, and to halt the project until it is completed.
According to a press release, the proposed West Island Redevelopment will involve the “complete obliteration” of the naturalized ecosystem on the West Island that has evolved over the past 50 years, including the removal of every tree (approximately 840 of them, of which over 600 are mature trees) and all vegetation, levelling of the internationally-recognized Michael Hough landscape contouring and filling the lagoons and small waterways on the West Island.
Ontario Place for All is asking the government halt the demolition activities to ensure the environmental impact of the proposal can be fully understood by the people of Ontario.
“Ontario Place for All is committed to using all possible avenues to hold the provincial government accountable for their actions at Ontario Place and ensuring that they follow the proper process which would involve public consultation on the West Island redevelopment. This filing is one of those avenues. We just want the government to follow its own laws,” said Norm Di Pasquale, co-chair of Ontario Place for All, in a statement.
Therme Canada, who is behind the spa development, issued its own statement:
“As a future tenant of Ontario Place, we will continue to work with all levels of government and our Indigenous partners to advance this revitalization project and address such challenges as the contaminated soil and the eroding shoreline.”
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