This plan seems rather short…

This plan seems rather short-sighted. If the concept of the conservation authorities is to maintain local land and watershed management, it seems ridiculous that Thunder Bay and Kincardine would be in the same region, does it not? How are local property owners, or developers, supposed to interact with their CA if the CA is a 15 hour drive away?

If this: How can regional conservation authorities maintain and strengthen relationships with local communities and stakeholders? - is actually a stated goal of the proposal, then you've seriously missed the mark. If local decision making is the desired goal, as stated, then large scale amalgamation is a move in the opposite direction.

Rather than spend however much this will cost (more than the 8% of funding that currently goes from the province to Conservation Ontario, I'm guessing), why not revisit the system in place to address concerns? Policy discrepancies could be addressed without changing the entire system. This plan seems like a waste of time and money to end up with a worse system.