Ero#025-1257 As a resident…

Ero#025-1257
As a resident of the Municipality of Neebing within the catchment area of the Lakehead Region Conservation Authority(LRCA) I am opposed to the Province’s proposed amalgamation of the LRCA with six other Southern Ontario Conservation Authorities to form the Huron-Superior Regional Conservation Authority. I support the LRCA’s recommendation that the Lakehead Region Conservation Authority form a stand alone regional conservation authority as the “Northwestern Ontario Regional Conservation Authority”.
It seems the reasoning behind the amalgamation is to spread the problems being experienced by Southern Ontario Conservation Authorities to the other authorities. It would be more than reasonable to address those problems within those particular authorities.
The Lakehead Region Conservation Authority (LRCA) is a well run authority financially and operationally. Withstanding the distance of the new boundaries these new boundaries would add significant extra cost and bureaucracy. I believe an analysis of these costs between authorities would bear this out.
It would be grossly unfair to punish the citizens of Northwestern Ontario with a greater bureaucratic and financial burden rather than bring solutions to the Authorities with problems.