I agree whole-heartedly with…

I agree whole-heartedly with this position declared by Environmental Defense.
It is as follows...."Nearly 4 months after Progressive Conservative MPPs forced approval of a law that will repeal Ontario’s Endangered Species Act, the Ontario government is confirming experts’ gravest warnings about what it will mean for at-risk plants and wildlife.

The Ontario government has announced that once the law comes into force, it will cease even to recognize more than 106 different species at risk, ranging from the Eastern Mole, Eastern Musk Turtle and Cougars, to the endangered Redside Dace, and Red-headed Woodpecker.

This decision should light a fire under the federal government to strictly enforce the existing federal Species at Risk Act and existing habitat protection orders in Ontario, but also to expand and broaden federal protections and monitoring. Federal protections will now be the only real protection for many habitats. In particular, because the Ontario government will remove all provincial recognition of endangered and threatened birds and fish, the government of Canada should issue emergency protection orders that extend to all species and habitats previously protected provincial habitat regulations and the Ontario Species at Risk list.

Premier Ford has shown a pattern of constantly prioritizing his developer friends and unnecessary projects over wildlife and nature."

I believe this same pattern was on display during Ford's attempted sell-off of the Ontario Greenbelt, with the ongoing tragedy of the Ontario Place property and currently with the proposed sell-off of 60% of the Wasaga Beach Provincial park.

In this time of global warming and mass extinction, for any government leader to propose a removal of Species Protection indicates a failure to understand the crucial link between nature and humans.

We all need to protect our wild places.