From: The Ottawa River Institute (www.ottawariverinstitute.ca)
Date: November 24, 2022
Subject: ERO number 019-6160, Proposed updates to the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System (in the context of various changes to the Conservation Authorities Act and the Planning Act proposed by Bill 23)
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We are in the Anthropocene. The Earth is screaming at us to stop destroying what keeps this world healthy. This includes your own backyard. We need to become stewards of life and land, care for what cares for us.
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We all need wetlands and the great farm land in the Greenbelt for drinking water, food, and to connect with nature.
The people do not give consent to a few land speculators to chisel away land in the Greenbelt for housing.
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I am commenting because I oppose this proposal which would be devastating to our wetlands and watersheds. There is nothing more important than environmental protection for the future of this province.
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Ontario has had intelligent people make some very good regulations about environment, wetlands and housing. These regulations have allowed opinions from many non governmental groups.
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I don’t believe that this proposal/bill should be approved. Wetlands are a vital ecosystem for many important organisms! Using wetlands for home development will decreases our biodiversity and simply cause flooding to the home being built there.
As I watch trees being cut, swamps being drained and million dollar homes being built on excellent farm land I shudder. Our air is being polluted by commuters.
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If the proposed changes to the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System (OWES) go ahead, here's what will happen and the problems this will created.
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Do not pass Bill 23. We need to maintain protections for our wetlands and focus on building density in existing urban areas to increase housing stock, rather than creating more sprawl. Dismantling the Greenbelt is not the answer to our housing crisis.
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The proposed changes to the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System are a significant step in the wrong direction for the people of Ontario. Wetlands are going to be an integral part of Ontario’s strategy to mitigate the effects and stress on Ontario’s communities caused by climate change.
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I am writing to express my opposition to Bill 23 and associated policy proposals that would weaken environmental protections and undermine public involvement in land use planning and decision-making.
I am particularly concerned about the:
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In reviewing this document and its proposed changes, the changes remove the substance of the this document and its extensive protections of Ontario's wetlands.
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Please consider growing up not out into our currently protected natural areas. We have many many empty concrete buildings which should be repurposed as housing. What good will it be to build houses into a landscape that depletes the little natural world that is left.
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November 24, 2022
The Honourable Graydon Smith
Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry
Whitney Block,
99 Wellesley St W,
Toronto, ON
M7A 1W3
minister.mnrf@ontario.ca
Dear Minister Smith,
Re: ERO #019-6160 - Proposed Updates to the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System
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This proposal creates a huge risk to our environment. Wet lands are extremely important in our ecosystem and making it easier to destroy them is unacceptable. There has to be an extensive evaluation before even thinking to develop on wetlands.
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