The provincial government has launched a new website that businesses can use to submit their ideas on modernizing regulations and reducing red tape.

Prabmeet Sarkaria, Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction, launched the site on October 18 at the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Annual Manufacturing Conference. The site will provide a simple, straightforward way for businesses to contact the government with their regulatory concerns.

"We want businesses to tell us directly how we can continue to reduce their regulatory burden, and make Ontario work smarter for them, in order to help make them be more competitive and support greater investment in Ontario," said Associate Minister Sarkaria. "The regulatory knot that was stifling business wasn't tied overnight. Untying it carefully and effectively will take time and persistence, and we will get the job done."

The site falls under the auspices of the province’s Open for Business Action Plan, which has set a target of reducing the cost of complying with regulations affecting businesses by $400 million annually by 2020.

The webpage can be found at ontario.ca/page/cutting-red-tape.