This amendment is simply not…

This amendment is simply not acceptable. A core principle of administrative law is that the government ought to be left a large amount of discretion. The expectation, of course, is that this discretion will not be abused by said government. Every single provision in this proposal is clearly written with the intent of enabling maximal abusive of legislative discretion. The current system allows for proper checks and balances on development. To call our environmental protections confusing is nonsensical. Who is interacting with these protections? Certainly not the average Canadian citizen. It should not matter if the protections are obscure — the wealthy developers that are clearly the motivation behind these amendments can afford excellent legal help. This entire amendment is clearly intended to allow the Ford government to do what it does best: sell out Ontario to developers. Why use a registration first system? So developers can simply wipe out endangered species and then phone it in? Why is the government given the discretion to unilaterally remove species from the endangered species registry? So that an inconvenient species can simply be hand-waved away? These changes are a naked attempt to maximize the amount of money the members of this government can shove into their already overstuffed pockets. They should not be implemented, and the entire proposal should be thrown out.