I strongly disapprove with…

I strongly disapprove with this proposal to consolidate the province’s 36 conservation authorities into one regional conservation authority.

Not providing any new, ongoing provincial funding to run conservation authorities effectively, while simultaneously creating a new provincial oversight agency that will weaken local municipal leaders’ control over conservation and environmental protections, will be detrimental. The change over to this this new 'conservation' agency will do little to nothing with regard to conservation as it strongly seems this is all to just streamline housing building without any plan whatsover to create more single-family homes on conservation protected lands. With a lack of oversight from individual municipalities with experts performing conservation efforts to their lands needs, I fear homes built on these protected lands will be built on or near a flood plain or sensitive habitats. This seems like Premier Ford is trying to pull away the necessary red tape so his rich developer friends can build more, faster, and worse projects without having to go through environmental protection processes to ensure their unnecessary developments won't flood entire municipalities. The introduction of this proposal would, without question, ruin the already delicate state of our local environments and be a detriment to the vulnerable nature of our important watersheds. Thus, this bill should not proceed and the 36 provincial conservation authorities shall stay within the municpailties responsibility, and ideally with greater conservation funding.