What was the Ontario government’s response to the recommendations of the Walkerton Inquiry?
The provincial government, after receiving the Report of the Walkerton Commission of Inquiry in May 2002, made a commitment to implement all of Justice O’Connor’s recommendations. Justice O’Connor recommended that the first step in the process be the development of a framework for source protection planning. In November 2002 the government established an Advisory Committee on Watershed-Based Source Protection Planning to provide advice to the government on a framework for watershed-based source protection planning. The resulting report, “Protecting Ontario’s Drinking Water: Towards a Watershed Based Source Protection Planning Framework”, was completed in April 2003. The government then consulted the public on the Framework by posting the report on the Environmental Registry. The full report of the Advisory Committee on Watershed-Based Source Protection Planning is available on the Ministry of Environment’s web site at: www.ene.gov.on.ca/envision/water/spp.htm In November 2003, a new go
