Any amendments to the ESA…

Numéro du REO

013-4143

Identifiant (ID) du commentaire

23072

Commentaire fait au nom

Individual

Statut du commentaire

Commentaire

Any amendments to the ESA must support its purpose of protecting and recovering at-risk species. To that end, I urge MECP to:

- Repeal the 2013 exemptions for the forestry, hydro, mining and development industries;
- Amend section 57 (1)1 of the ESA so that exemptions will only be allowed if they do not jeopardize the survival and recovery of endangered and threatened species;
- Maintain COSSARO’s current science-based listing process;
- Maintain mandatory habitat protection with no ministerial discretion; and
- Maintain the requirement for proponents of harmful activities to provide an on-the-ground overall benefit to species impacted with no backdoor option to simply pay into a fund to compensate for harm.