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Ontario has 243 species at risk of extinction. I worry that your government's cosy-ness with big business and your expressed desire to find "efficiencies" for business will hinder, not help, recovery of these species. We cannot make it easier for industry to pollute and disturb wildlife! Also, loosening certain restrictions on hunting is not helping. E.g., the Algonquin wolf. Wolf Ontario says,
"The Ontario government announced these new closure areas on September 15th, the day wolf and coyote hunting and trapping seasons opened across the majority of the province. Ontario is not even planning on tracking the number of animals killed in the areas re-opened to hunting and trapping, let alone what species they are.

To open the seasons for a species that is threatened with extinction, the government had to punch a hole in the Endangered Species Act that undermines its intent by allowing hunters and trappers to kill the wolves anywhere outside of the 4 closures. Algonquin wolves are known to travel into unprotected habitat. When they do, they rarely survive. Hunting and trapping are the primary threats to Algonquin wolves."