Please do not allow these…

Please do not allow these proposed changes go forward.
It's not just nature I am concerned about, it's all the other industries, e.g. tourism, which depend on us having a naturally resplendent province. (I'm thinking of all the tourism dollars flooding into Rondeau, Point Pelee, Long Point areas this month.)

Bill 5 will wipe out Ontario's award-winning Species Conservation Act and replace it with legislation which
• allows as yet unnamed government-appointed individuals (developers maybe?) to decide which species deserve protection
• limits species habitat protection to the "critical root zone" of an endangered plant or the occupied nest or den of an endangered animal (I'm no biologist, but even I know plants and animals can't exist in such curtailed spaces -- unless they are in zoos or nature museums)
• abandons all government efforts and responsibility for recovery strategies for endangered species

Worst of all it will not even require people to ASK FIRST or even investigate and think about what they are doing before they destroy endangered species habitat.
No, just register your intent to destroy a forest or wetland and get to work.
The [proposed] Act ensures no one, no "enforcement officer" can stop you.

This is terrible legislation. It seriously impedes the survival of our planet.