While recognizing the…

While recognizing the economic need for development of Ontario's resources, that doesn't mean we need to change laws and allow that development to take place without proper recognition of the need to protect native species' habitats and maximize the role nature plays in maintaining clean air and water, ensuring pollinators for crops aren't wiped out, and reduce the incidence of ever more destructive weather related disasters.
Existing laws offer many of those protections already, while the proposed new legislation will deliberately reduce those protections and jeopardize our living conditions, rather than improve them.
Resource development must take place in conjunction with protecting our natural habitat, not bypassing existing protections purely for monetary gain.
Speeding up processing paperwork is a laudable goal, but regardless ,due diligence must be done to fully understand the ecological impact and the measures that must be taken to insure all impacts are eliminated or minimized to the greatest extent possible.
The government's proposed bill does not adequately address these issues as written.