I find the repealing of the…

I find the repealing of the
Endangered Species Act egregious. You are narrowing the definition of the meaning of
habitat making it as small as a den or nest and the immediate root system of plants,
which are less than needed to survive. You are eliminating the requirements to create a
strategy for how to recover at risk species. The vast and sweeping proposed changes
will move Ontario away from a science-based approach to protecting species at risk to
one that relies on industry and developers’ voluntary and discretionary approaches.
Even the recognition that species are endangered would be placed at the discretion of
the current government.