Toronto, the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the traditional territory of the Chippewa, Huron-Wendat, and Haudenosaunee peoples (March 30, 2026) - Today, Premier Ford’s government announced another bill aiming to slash green building standards across Ontario.

Premier Ford’s new “Building Homes and Improving Transportation Infrastructure Act” threatens to cut well-established green development standards that protect residents from higher monthly bills and extreme heat and flooding. The bill claims to be “removing municipal authority to require enhanced development standards” without providing or suggesting similar or stronger green building standards to take their place.

Premier Ford’s bill threatens green building standards in over 15 Ontario municipalities. This includes the Toronto Green Standard, an award-winning policy that has cut monthly energy costs for thousands of Toronto households since 2010.

By eliminating municipal green development standards, Premier Ford is letting developers walk away with higher profit margins while locking residents into decades of higher monthly bills in less efficient, less climate-safe buildings.

“Last year, Premier Ford destroyed Toronto’s popular green roof bylaw, and all the good jobs across this province that came with it,” says Sarah Buchanan, Campaigns Director at TEA. “Now he’s attacking local climate-safe building rules again at the worst possible time - just as fuel prices are rising and we start facing another season of floods, fires, and extreme heat. This will make our homes and buildings more vulnerable to extreme weather and increase monthly bills for residents just so that developers can make more profit.”

TEA has been mobilizing the public to speak out against these rollbacks, find that linked here.  

Background information is available here.

Contact: Jessica Gordon, [email protected]

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