Being in the midst of the…

Being in the midst of the largest mass extinction to date, I appreciate that Ontario's environment plan is called "Preserving and Protecting our Environment for Future Generations", however, using the ESA to "support economic development" is the exact opposite way to preserve and protect our Ontario species. If the government believes the current ESA to be ineffective, then push harder for conservation and invest more into science-based research and indigenous knowledge, not allow for greater development and further habitat destruction. So many species are already at their Northern limits and at the brink of extirpation from our province. This lessening of what small amount of protection they already have could be what finally causes our "future generations" to loose the gift of seeing our most iconic and at-risk wildlife in their natural habitats in Ontario.