The proposed changes 1.D and…

The proposed changes 1.D and 1.E are not appropriate at all and will reduce a species' ability to survive.

The Minister, as a public figure, may have a perspective that is biased and swayed based on lobbying, stakeholder, voters' opinion, money from developers. This is not an appropriate method to save species at risk. Species at risk may exist at a site to be developed and this proposal provides the Minister with enough power to eliminate their presence. The Minister does not have enough scientific knowledge to understand everything to make an educated decision.

Furthermore, considering a species' presence in a geographical area outside of Ontario before classifying it as endangered is not acceptable either. You are basically allowing a species to become extirpated in Ontario. This can reduce a species range greatly, can divide populations into multiple ones if you remove appropriate habitat in ontario, making it difficult for them to breed, thus reducing their genetic diversity and their ability to survive overall.

Please think your plan over before putting it through. Once these species are gone, they cannot come back.