Please ensure that…

Please ensure that streamlining does not entail allowing more economic development to the detriment of the species at risk, protected within the Endangered Species Act. If the intent of this review is to truly look at making improvements to the Act, that sounds like sound decision making. However, if the intent is to actually allow proposals - which will in fact, either short-term or long-term, have a detrimental effect on the species covered within the Act or the environments in which they inhabitate - this is not a course of action that I support nor that current or future Canadians support. I recognize that it has been written that one of the priorities of the review is to ensure the best outcomes for the species covered under the Act. However, often when economic development is in conflict with species at risk it is the species who suffer and who lose out. Please do not allow that to happen. Thank you.