Only species that are at…

For species that may be Provincially 'at risk': At the minimum, only species that are at risk federally, in adjacent provinces, territories and the United States of America and/or its states bordering Ontario should be included on the Province's list of Species at Risk.

That being said, for the purposes of making those decisions, species of Special Concern, or the equivalent term in the neighbouring jurisdiction, should be included in the criteria even though not fully Species at Risk. Species that are common, then, in one or more of those jurisdictions, but not 'at risk' in any of them, would not be included. Licaeides melissa samuelis, for example, would continue to be included since New York recognizes it as Endangered. If it were common in Ontario (it is not), though, it of course would not be included on Ontario's list, regardless of its status in New York.

This all being said, if Ontario believes a species should be included on other jurisdictions' lists of at risk species but aren't and the species is at minimum threatened here, then the Province should make an exception and include it on the list of Species at Risk.