Landscape Trades - February 2021

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WINTER MAINTENANCE LIABILITY BILL PASSES IN ONTARIO

FEDS PROMISE TO PLANT 2 BILLION TREES The Government of Canada announced its plan to plant two billion trees over 10 years, with an investment of $3.16 billion. Seamus O’Regan, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, unveiled the plan in a media release on Dec. 14, 2020. “Planting two billion trees is more than a plan for climate action,” O’Regan said. “It’s a plan for creating thousands of good,

green jobs. We’re confronting the urgency of climate change and getting trees in the ground starting this spring.” To accomplish the goal, the Government of Canada said it will continue to work with existing tree-planting programs including Highway of Heroes Tree Campaign, which has planted more than 750,000 of a planned two million trees between Trenton and Toronto in Ontario.

The Ontario provincial legislature passed Bill 118, the Occupiers' Liability Amendment Act, on Dec. 3, 2020. The bill took effect in January, 2021 after receiving royal assent from Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor. The new law requires slip and fall claimants to provide written notice to a property owner, property manager, snow removal contractor or tenant within 60 days of the incident. The previous time period was two years. The written notice must also include the location, date and time of the incident. Landscape Ontario’s Executive Director Tony DiGiovanni calls rising insurance rates for winter maintenance contractors “a crisis,” and says the association’s snow and ice management sector group is engaging with government officials and the insurance industry to find solutions.

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