Evan Wiseman
Evan Wiseman is Senior Climate Policy Manager at The Atmospheric Fund (TAF), a Toronto-based climate finance organization. He has publicly criticized Bill 98's framing of green building standards as a housing cost barrier, noting that the actual costs are modest compared to the long-term energy savings lost by building to minimum code.
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Ford's Bill 98 would permanently strip Ontario municipalities of the power to require EV charging, tree canopy, bird-friendly glass, and energy standards from developers — handing a legislative victory to RESCON, the industry lobby already suing Toronto in court over the same rules. Cities have already frozen new green standard programs in anticipation.
As TAF's Senior Climate Policy Manager, Wiseman has publicly challenged the Ford government's framing that green building standards are a significant housing cost driver, providing technical analysis of the long-term cost shift onto homebuyers.