Modernization must not come…

Modernization must not come at the expense of:

• local accountability and decision-making
• rural representation
• watershed-based science and natural hazard expertise
• donor trust and municipal land agreements
• agricultural partnerships and on-the-ground service delivery
• bilingual service obligations
• community safety and emergency response capacity

Many conservation authorities work together as is, where needed and then divide and focus their attention on their individual areas when needed.

Where the province has already reduced its funding to local conservation authorities from 90% funded in previous years, to more recent 3% funding supplied by the provice, should they then only have 3% say in what is done with their directionality. This whole proposal reeks of wanting to be the king of the sandbox using a bully mentality.

We need to protect wild spaces, and a fat cat on a high chair in a city condo in Toronto, is not the person to do this.

Terrible plan, consider providing more funding to CA’s, expanding popular services (which are deemed popular by property owners, not rich corporations or builder contractors) and protecting valuable lands that are home to many critters and plant species which make our lands unique and a lovely space to live. Keep your city development in the city, focus your broad hand where you fund. Leave expert work, to the experts. Getting rid of CA’s will not mean buildings going up faster, it will mean buildings will be build without proper measures on things like marshes, where in 4 years the floors are cracked and foundations is slipping. We have already seen this before.

Focus on your 1$ beers ford, you couldn’t even provide that.