I am very worried about…

I am very worried about these changes. They seem to allow groups whose main aim is profit to cause significant environmental harm without restriction, then ask permission later, once the damage is already done.
The answer to ‘the permit process takes too long’ is to improve the efficiency of the process while maintaining protection, but this is just disregarding the protection to allow corporations to do what they want.
There are many at risk animals such as Ontario turtles in our cities and rural areas who are already struggling to survive in the face of road mortalities and poor water quality in our lakes. Ontario Turtles can live to over 100 years but only 1 in 1000 eggs will make it to adulthood. While some species such as rabbits can reproduce quickly to replace those killed, the same is not true for turtles. One adult turtle killed by careless construction takes 60 years to be replaced in the population and is devastation to the long term survival of the species.
I understand that not everyone sees the conservation of endangered species such as snapping turtles as high priority. For those people, I would like to highlight that turtles keep our waterways clean by eating dead fish - without them lakes and rivers will be unable to support live and our beautiful parks will no longer be nice picnic spots for our families.