As a concerned resident of…

As a concerned resident of Ontario, I feel that we need to do more, not less, to protect our natural heritage and specifically Ontario's Endangered Species. Although several new Bombus (bumble bee) species were just listed, we have insufficient data to assess most bee species, leaving aside the remaining essential pollinators (flies, beetles, etc) about whose population stability we know very little. The proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act, popularly labelled "pay to kill", will weaken protections and compromise our long-term ecological stability. In this age of uncertainty, we need all the ecosystem services that we can get. Please do not move us backward - make Ontario somewhere we can feel proud to call home.