1. This proposed change is…

1. This proposed change is weakening Ontario to become like one of those third world developing countries. It makes me very uncomfortable to see such a backwards approach, as we move forward into the year 2030 where conservation, and ecological accountability, should be more detailed, more complex, more scientific! Not the other way around, which is what this Act is looking to do, somehow simplifying something that should not be simple in the first place.

2. If the Ontario Biodiversity Council is reporting more than 30,000 known species in Ontario, then in what manner has the Ministry of Ontario proposed that these 30,000 species can actually be inventoried and registered in alignment with the developments? Are you discounting and disagreeing with the findings of the Ontario Biodiversity Council? We are not simply talking about a few frogs, or a couple of plants. We are talking to entire ecosystems in four distinct ecozones. This Act does not account for the scale of impact and degradation.

3. This Species Conservation Act, 2025 is poorly thought out. It's embarrassing.