This will result in small…

This will result in small rural municipalities paying for Toronto bureaucrats to tell them what to do.

This will result in more middle management, more costs, slower processing times, and worse outcomes.

The vast majority of conservation authorities already work. They meet their deadlines, and are held accountable locally by their small boards made up of their funding municipalities. These new areas will be told large, meaning small municipalities will pay but get no say.

Go back to the drawing board. Tweak a few boundaries, combine a few of the really small ones and be done with it. Don't fix what isn't broken