We're facing overlapping…

We're facing overlapping crises in staggering biodiversity loss with extinction rates hundreds of times faster than natural rates, and a world breaching the essential 1.5 celsius warming cap under climate change, with Ontario currently set to miss our 2030 goals by megatons. The public pay the price in life and health - eroded or missing ecosystem services, droughts and out of control wildfires, skyrocketing food prices, dangerous heat waves, and more.

Wetlands and watersheds, part of the Conservation Authorities' purview, are essential for preventing flooding, which has increased by some 400% in the last several years.

89% of Canadians identified nature as a core aspect of national identity. Will our government reflect majority opinion and protect our basic environmental needs?

I strongly urge that we stop dragging our environmental rights into the past and instead bolster them.

Do not amalgamate the 36 conservation authorities; they will not be able to do their jobs if they are further downgraded, already strained as they are under severe underfunding and having powers removed by the government.