Prioritizing short term…

Prioritizing short term economic benefits over habitat and species protection will be disastrous for Ontario. Diminishing protections on endangered species and their habitats will increase extinction of Ontario’s native species and harm ecosystems. All species within Ontario are interconnected and work together to provide the ecosystem services we benefit from. Harming any native species harms all. By abandoning the Endangered Species Act, we discard the work done over the course of decades and threaten to make these efforts fruitless. While the Species Conservation Act seeks to bring monetary gain to Ontario, we risk losing species and therefore services that no amount of money can replace.