🇨🇦 Ontario's Special Economic Zones Face Constitutional Attack From the Usual Suspects

Advocacy groups have filed a constitutional challenge against Ontario's Special Economic Zones Act, a law designed to cut through regulatory gridlock and accelerate economic development. The groups opposing it are predictable: the same network of NGOs, Indigenous rights organizations, and legal activists who view any deregulation as an existential threat to their preferred governance model. The challenge frames economic acceleration as a violation of rights rather than what it actually is — a government attempting to build something in a country that has forgotten how.

Canada has spent fifteen years tying itself in consultative knots while our competitors build infrastructure, attract capital, and actually produce things. Every project that gets blocked, every zone that gets litigated into irrelevance, is another decade of stagnation dressed up as principle. The same activist infrastructure that celebrated Trudeau's resource paralysis is now working to ensure Carney cannot deviate from the same path, even when the rhetoric changes. The legal system has become the preferred tool for preventing Canada from functioning.

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