The Ontario Government has announced that once this law comes into effect, it will cease to recognize more than 106 different species at risk. This is deplorable and makes me so angry!
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I have spent much of my adult life promoting conservation. It pains me to see the disregard that this government has for the biodiversity in Ontario. We cannot keep building over farmland and at risk habitat for the sake of moving forward faster.
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I am very alarmed that you will be removing almost half the endangered species with these proposed changes. It seems like a reckless disregard for the stewardship of our planet for filthy lucre.
Don't narrow the definition of habitat. Recovery depends on future restoration zones.
Reinstate the advisory committee. We need oversight.
Reverse the exclusion of aquatic species and migratory birds.
Stop the exemption of permits from public comment.
Protect evidence based conservation.
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October 21, 2025
Sent via Ontario Regulatory Registry: Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks
To whom it may concern,
Re: Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025
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I think the effect bill C-5 will have on environmental legislation should be reviewed or simply not approved at all.
The focus on development for our country will in turn cause our laws set in place to protect the environment to be dropped completely.
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who cares to build more unaffordable homes, especially when forcing innocent animals out of theirs, all that this does it turn canada into more of a suburban hell than it already is.
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I oppose putting economic growth ahead of species conservation. This so called conservation act is removing protections for at risk species, and going against evidence based conservation research. As a young person living in Ontario, I want to have hope for the future of our environment.
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I live in Southern Ontario and I don’t want to see anymore of my country turned from a beautiful landscape into a Walmart with a McDonald’s in the parking lot
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Piping plovers, and all other endangered species, need to remain under Provincial protection. Piping plovers, and the others on the list to be removed, are protected federally but the federal government does not offer sufficient protections.
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In these dangerous times, any stripping away of essential protections is a backwards (in every sense of the word) step for all of us. These tiny and defenceless creatures are worth more than any amount of money. Their lives cannot be the price for rich corporations to get richer.
Living near Georgian Bay, our community is very protective of the piping plovers that hatch a few eggs each summer. They still too frequently die before they mature and need our continurd protection.
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Species at risk like the piping plover should not be removed from the list just to pave the way for promoters!!!
It's our responsibility to protect the few that is left for the future generations to come.
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Scientific findings shouldn’t be politically vetoed. Protect evidence space conservation. Also, do not narrow the definition of ‘habitat’,
recovery depends on our future restoration zones.
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In regards to the amendments being made to facilitate the Species Conservation Act, 2025 (SCA), I support many of the comments made by Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC), among others, about the proposal of the SCA under the Protect Ontario by Unleashing the Economy Act.
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