Reducing local watershed…

Reducing local watershed oversight and control seems like a tool to speed up development at all costs.

Having worked for the Ontario government I'm all too familiar with the way environmental protections fall out of priority and get lost in favour of provincial mandates that prioritize political gain over natural resources.

Restructuring Ontario's Conservation Authorities, will create massive confusion and hamper operations for several years even if the end product was going to be an improvement, which it won't be.
This sounds like cutting the Public Health Units just before Covid.

Flooding and extreme weather is on the rise and the existing conservation units require more resources not restructuring.

The proposed restructuring will give the government greater ability to control the for profit use of water on a scale never seen before. I predict large scale sale of water to the US, to the detriment of all Ontarians. The bottled water joke we're currently living causes massive plastic pollution and makes massive profits for the bottling companies at the expense of local water. This will pale in comparison to the large scale water sales we've got coming.

The current government likes to control things themselves so they can benefit. Many a hidden agenda surfaces over time. The greenbelt scandal shows the current governments priorities.

I suggest that losing local conservation authority control will also facilitate land sales and development, with limited, or no local consultation.