This is an egregious…

This is an egregious overstep and major setback for protecting wildlife in Ontario. With these changes, one merely has to register online to put shovels in the ground. The independent organization we (the public taxpayers) are paying to make scientific research-based decisions regarding species of concern, endangered, and close to extirpation (meaning we destroy all their habitat in Ontario until they are no longer able to live in the province) are effectively being rendered a puppet organization with this bill. We will continue to pay them to advise us while ignoring their research to reclassify endangered species. Previously, removing a species from the endangered list was a cause to celebrate as it meant our conservation efforts were working. Now sadly it means we have received a registration from a very profitable company that wants to develop on a species' habitat. There is no rejection process for this. Submit your application registration, pave over habitats, and if caught the worst case is a fine. You can read the fines for being caught, they reduce every endangered species to a mathematical formula to determine how much someone has to pay for killing them or destroying their habitat. Welcome to the future, no wildlife, concrete as far as the eye can see.