The bill, tabled Tuesday, sets the stage for Barrie to annex more than 2,000 acres from neighbouring Springwater and Oro-Medonte, an expansion that has been stalled for months as the three municipalities struggled to reach a formal agreement by a Sept. 30 deadline imposed by a provincially appointed facilitator.

After Bonnie Crombie announced she would step aside following the party’s disappointing election result, a mix of veteran politicians, former candidates, and political newcomers are quietly, and not-so-quietly, testing the waters.

“I’ve always been a believer, I grew up in it, that people who live there are rights holders,” he said. “No government, no law can supersede that.”

The Canadian Nuclear Association was registered by Jamie Rockingham and Alistair Langhorne, both consultants with StrategyCorp Inc.

The government says the rules would apply to everything from lumber and steel to the vehicles and equipment used in the construction of highways, schools, transit systems, homes, and hospitals.

“When someone is VSA [vital signs absent] we don’t say, ‘Well, we don’t have their permission.’ We revive them,” he said. “If we intervene for someone about to jump from a bridge, why not intervene when someone is so sick they can’t make good decisions? This illness clouds judgment, it’s a medical fact.”