Bill 153 explained in plain English
Complying with International Trade Obligations Act, 2014
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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Bill 153, the Complying with International Trade Obligations Act, 2013, amends the Electricity Act, 1998, to remove domestic content requirements from Ontario's feed-in tariff program in response to a World Trade Organization ruling.
This Ontario bill amends the Electricity Act, 1998, to remove a requirement for setting domestic content goals in Ontario's feed-in tariff program. This change is being made to comply with a World Trade Organization decision that found these domestic content goals to be inconsistent with international trade agreements. The bill states that it comes into effect on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Amends the Electricity Act, 1998.
- Repeals a specific subsection (subsection 25.35 (3)) of the Electricity Act, 1998.
- Removes the requirement for the Minister to issue, and the Ontario Power Authority to follow, directions that set goals for minimum domestic content under the province's feed-in tariff program.
- Brings Ontario's feed-in tariff program into compliance with a World Trade Organization decision.
- The Government of Ontario
- The Minister of Energy
- The Ontario Power Authority
- Producers of renewable energy under the feed-in tariff program
- The Minister is no longer required to issue directions setting domestic content goals.
- The Ontario Power Authority is no longer required to follow directions setting domestic content goals.
- This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The specific details or implications of the World Trade Organization decision beyond the inconsistency of domestic content goals are not detailed in the bill text.
- The bill does not specify the exact mechanisms or programs that will be used to replace or modify the feed-in tariff program's domestic content requirements.
Removes a requirement related to domestic content goals for the feed-in tariff program.
Source: Section 1 of the bill
Repeals subsection 25.35 (3), which mandated the setting of domestic content goals for the feed-in tariff program.
Source: Section 1 of the bill
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