The current protections that…

The current protections that developers face are inadequate as it is, and passing Bill 5 would only worsen the devastating effects we see towards endangered species and species-at-risk on a daily basis. I think the Conservative Party’s goal of replacing the Endangered Species Act with the Species Conservation Act severely underestimates the general public’s desire for money over the protection of all species. To resolve this issue would mean eliminating the need for supplemental income in the first place, but one thing at a time.

I will admit, the initial copy of Bill 5 I read looks passable, but that is only until understanding exactly what consequences it will inevitably lead to. The “designated projects” where municipal and provincial rules don’t apply are the only breeding location of a critically endangered species, or the procurement of rare earth elements that demolishes the habitats of at-risk amphibians.

Allowing deforestation, commercial logging, habitat destruction, even if it is only in, miraculously, places where the aforementioned habitats do not occur, would still negatively impact climate change as a whole.

In the end, protecting and restoring habitats is not the same thing, and arguing that it is by someone who has no education of this topic past the high school level should not be justified.