Amalgamating Regional…

Amalgamating Regional Conservation Authorities that are near one another, which share the same kind of landscape, and human interests, makes sense. Amalgamating the Lakehead Regional Conservation Authority on the north shore of Lake Superior with another so far distantly south and east of it, not even on the same Great Lake, and populated by locals and southern Ontario big city urbanites whose environmental situation and interests so strongly contrast with those of us up in the Thunder Bay region, inevitably sets up a scenario where the more populous urban southerners' interests are going to take precedence over those of us north of Superior. We're actually closer to Manitoba than to Lake Huron/Georgian Bay, and even much closer to Minnesota with which we share the same north shore Superior landscape and environmental interests. What theses 3 criteria for amalgamation show is that you should please let the Lakehead Regional Conservation Authority remain a separate unamalgamated Regional Conservation Authority whose inherent interests are worthy of being considered on their own merits rather than being engulfed by those of a distant southern entity.