Wetlands play a critical role in the ecosystem. They should remain absolutely off limits for development. The protections around them should be strengthened not weakened. The proposed changes quite literally pave the way to destroying a valuable component of our ecosystem.
The changes to the OWES system are vast and inappropriate. Wetland being already miniscule in Ontario should not be threatened further. They are one of the main strongholds against climate change.
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While it may be convenient to remove wetland complexes from the OWES, it is not aligned with ecosystem function. Wetland complexes should remain and re-evaluation should not occur.
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These changes will cause immense harm to Ontario's wetlands. They are not individual entities; they are complex and connected systems that must be managed at the provincial level.
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Wetlands are critical for healthy ecosystems AND AGRICULTURE in Ontario and elsewhere in North America…Dismantling werland protection is a very bad idea.
You do not need to pave over wetlands to build homes.
There are so many places in Ontario that could be built upward in density to solve the housing crisis.
These homes will flood, and it will only get worse due to the climate crisis.
This proposal is awful for the environment and ecological health of our province. Please conserve our green spaces insteas of selling ti the highest bidder. We must protect our planet for future generations!
An Ontarian
Further shrinking wetlands is unbelievably short sighted. We should not be paving them over to build more homes, we need to better use the land already available by reducing urban sprawl and building up.
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The proposed changes that allow re-evaluation of wetland complexes as single wetlands defies wetland science and is clearly done here to make it easier to undervalue and hence develop wetlands.
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Wetland classification, boundaries and generally the environment should take the upmost priority over any commercial or residential building projects. Our province needs to put the environment first.
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The new proposals for wetlands are unacceptable. Ecosystems are complex and fragile. Once you build on a wetland, you not only harm this balance, but you put the homes built there at risk. Short term gain for long term pain. Anyone who has taken any geography classes would understand this.
Premier Ford, only you can protect Ontarios wetlands. Once they’re destroyed, they can’t be rebuilt, it is imperative that new housing be placed on existing developed space as much as humanly possible and that outward expansion is minimized, NOT to pave our wetlands.
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What this and the Legislative and Regulatory Proposals Affecting Conservation Authorities to Support the Housing Supply Action Plan 3.0 will do is remove smaller wetlands from conservation. That’s not how ecosystems functions.
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