A drastic overhaul of the…

A drastic overhaul of the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System, ensuring that very few remaining wetlands would be deemed provincially significant in the future and that many if not most existing Provincially Significant Wetlands would be vulnerable to losing that designation, is NOT acceptable.
No remaining wetlands should be destroyed. We need affordable housing but not at any cost to the environment. Every city and town has land available in the already paved areas. This land may need remediation etc but developers just want easy new land to build on. If cheap, lowest grade standard housing is built in these areas then pretty soon the owners will have flooded basements, dampness and mold. Is this affordable housing ???
If you let this part of the Act be passed then there will be more severe flooding throughout Ontario.
I walk areas of a wetland, in the Dundas area. It is an area that provides habitat for many endangered species, one of which is various species of turtles, some of which are endangered. There are many groups that work very hard to assist turtles in Ontario, and understand the importance of maintaining their natural habitat, or else the turtles and many other unique wetland species will be wiped out.
Does your government not understand about a balanced system, if there are no natural wetlands then there will be no way that a human population is sustainable. Natural wetlands are huge filter systems, sure you can alter them by engineering inventive ideas, but time and again this has failed after a few years. Ontario has very little of its original wetlands left, in this new world of climate emergency no natural wetland can be destroyed. If anything you need to overall the mandate of the OWES manuals.
To add new guidance related to re-evaluation of wetlands and updates to mapping of evaluated wetland boundaries. All present wetlands need to be designated and protected.
To make changes to better recognize the professional opinion of wetland evaluators and the role of local decision makers (e.g. municipalities).
We need natural wetlands, DO NOT pave over, or relocate them. Natural wetlands exist where they are because the natural order has found this to be the best location, often a low point where water naturally drains to, whether on a permanent basis or as an overflow when heavy precipitation occurs.
Please listen to the environmental experts not the large developers whose only interest is profit at any cost.