This proposal is not an…

This proposal is not an improvement of the Conservation Authority system. This proposal is to make it easier for builders, landowners and farmers to seek permits. This is not about protecting our environment or protecting our fragile water systems. It's about making it easier for our province to erode the environment and our fragile water system to make it easier for wealthy corporations and landowners to take land away from the public. This proposal erodes our democracy and gives more power and more money to corporations and landowners.

Why is the Government of Ontario allowed to lie to the elected people by calling this an improvement of the CA system? This proposal is about allowing developers to take conservation land that was established since 1946.

This proposal will cost millions of dollars in changing signs and changing staff. It's the equivalent of throwing out the baby with the bath water. I recently studied with Ronald Heifetz at Harvard Kennedy School in a course called Adaptive Leadership and this proposal is a classic example of making too many changes to a system that it's guaranteed to fail. I don't want my home province to become an example of poor planning at Harvard Kennedy School or the laughing stock of the world.

Is anyone planning for the future with this proposal? If this passes it will be a classic example of streamlining the CA into 7 areas, then wasting lots of money, then having environmentalists fight back, and court challenges, and developers to get richer in the short-term, only for future Ontarians to clean up the mess and go back to the regional Conservation Authority system it once had.