RE: Bill 66 I am a seasoned…

RE: Bill 66

I am a seasoned field botanist with 25 years experience who works in the Golden Horseshoe and southwestern Ontario. I can tell you with all confidence that the ecology of Southern Ontario is under threat and getting worse and worse. We have about 15% forest cover, and of that 15%, most of it is low-quality, isolated, and choked with invasive species. Reptiles, amphibians, birds and insects!!! - the basis of the food chain - are all in decline. And your government wants to make it easier to what? Weaken laws designed to protect the ecology and the wildlife of Southern Ontario to make it easier for developers to build more housing in rural areas and destroy more habitat???

Please stop pretending like you know more than regular citizens, that you know more than ecologists like myself when it comes to protecting natural habitats. The ecology of Southern Ontario is collapsing and by these policies you are accelerating the decline.