Ontario PC caucus member opposed to government’s landfill plan in Dresden [Video]

A southwestern Ontario member of Premier Doug Ford’s caucus is speaking out against his government’s decision to cancel an environmental assessment for a landfill expansion in his riding.

Steve Pinsonneault, who was elected last year in a byelection in Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, promised during that campaign to work to get an environmental assessment for the site and the government ordered one last year, but now it is backtracking.

An omnibus bill before the legislature that would also give cabinet the power to suspend laws for certain projects by creating “special economic zones” and change endangered species rules in a way critics say guts protections would also revoke the requirement for an environmental assessment for the Dresden, Ont., landfill proposal.

Pinsonneault posted a video to Facebook saying he is opposed to that move.

“I’ve had thousands of emails, hundreds of phone calls, and several people in person come to talk to me about …