Ontario's wetlands are…

Ontario's wetlands are complex ecosystems which are deeply important to our natural heritage, and public safety. These ecosystems provide habitat for many of the regions threatened species, and serve an important purpose as flood attenuators.

Sometimes wetlands exist as complexes, and may not be obviously connected. Multiple wetlands may exist in areas farther than 750m apart, but they function in unison.
Many larger wetlands may cross municipal boundaries, and the MNRF should evaluate wetlands as a whole or as a complex, but they should never be ignored or split.

The Ontario Wetland Evaluation System is a complex and important procedure and Ontarians will not benefit from the proposed policy changes in the long term. We need more houses, but build up, not out.