This is absurd. How much farther will we allow businesses and big money go? What exactly is the relationship between paying money and culling wildlife. Particularly endangered species!? Just how ignorant and short-sighted are these bozos?
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It is crucial for us to save endangered species--- and all species, including humans. We cannot live without biodiversity and a working biosphere. Without them we will all die.
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You may not care about our future but I have a child that I love dearly and want her to grow up with a biodiversity rich environment. Money doesn’t matter, only life is important and by not protecting our plants and animals, you are condemning our kids to a dead planet.
To whom it may concern,
I do not agree with the proposed changes to the species at risk act.
I feel that it gives big money corporations an easy out by paying a “fee” to over look the necessary actions on protecting our venerable species and environments. This is not okay.
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Pay to Slay will devastate endangered animals and cause dozens to be added to that list. Profits for the wealthy will not save our planet. I do not support the proposed changes.
“The forest sector requires a permanent section 55 regulation that recognizes the Crown Forest Sustainability Act as an equivalent process to the Endangered Species Act. I do not support the proposed section 18 “harmonization” option for the forest sector.”
I am a long standing conservative, primarily due to the greater fiscal responsibility and business-friendliness I see with this party. I feel being financially healthy is a necessary step to fund other key programs such as education and health care.
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The forest sector requires a permanent section 55 regulation that recognizes the Crown Forest Sustainability Act as an equivalent process to the Endangered Species Act. I do not support the proposed section 18 “harmonization” option for the forest sector.
I am writing to you to express my deep concern regarding the proposed amendments to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) regulations.
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Dear Hon. Minister Phillips,
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the review of the Endangered Species Act. Please consider this my submission to the public consultation.
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The creation of a "Species at Risk Conservation Trust" to allow municipalities or other infrastructure developers the option to pay a charge in lieu of completing certain on-the-ground activities required by the act is a disgusting way of skipping regulations that have been put in place for the prot
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No no no. With the current perilous state of many Ontario species at risk,we cannot simply allow big corporations to just destroy habitat and hand some money over.
The forest sector would like a permanent solution in section 55 regulation that recognizes the Crown Forest Sustainability Act as an equivalent process to the Endangered Species Act as this has been working well for the forest sector since 2009.
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Clearly the proposed changes to Ontario's Endangered Species Act are designed to allow business and recreational use of habitat to override the protection for all species at risk. I strongly object to them.
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The proposed changes in this plan are very concerning. The government is unraveling protection for species at risk in favour of developers. We need to do more to protect species at risk not less!!
I am definitely against the proposed changes to the Species at Risk act. This new legislation provides the Minister overreaching powers to avoid and delay protection of a species to the point where its habitat could be destroyed through development.
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The Endangered Species Act (ESA) already covers all necessary fields to effectively protect and assist in recovery of species at risk. The main issue with the ESA currently is lack of implementation, not lack of regulations or guidelines.
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Many of the proposed changes go against the key reasons for having an endangered species act in the first place. The change of having industries pay fees rather than following regulations will completely negate the importance of having regulations to protect endangered species.
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