September 25, 2023

Todd McCarthy Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery Government of Ontario College Park, 5th Flr., 777 Bay Street Toronto, ON M7A 2J3 Sent electronically Dear Minister McCarthy: On behalf of the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO), we would like to extend our sincere congratulations on your appointment to Cabinet as Minister of Public and Business Service Deliv. [...] A key element of infrastructure and construction projects, particularly in the civil and residential sectors, is the timely delivery of utility locates. [...] The system allows homeowners, construction contractors, developers, builders and other excavators to make one locate request to a call centre instead of the previous practice of separate calls to each of the utilities. [...] Given the importance of timely underground utility locates to the infrastructure industry, RCCAO was delighted by the Ontario Government’s new changes introduced in Bill 93, Getting Ontario Connected Act, which bring regulatory reforms to the Ontario One Call utility locates system. [...] RCCAO members are ready to work to build critical infrastructure and housing to realize the prosperous future for the people of Ontario.