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Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025

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Permitting destruction of habitat or species sacred to Indigenous nations without consent is a continuation of dispossession. You cannot reconcile with one hand while deregulating sacred life with the other.

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Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025

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Species protection must include Indigenous-led stewardship and law. This amendment assumes the Crown has the right to decide who gets to survive. That assumption is false, violent, and rooted in ongoing colonial erasure

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The Species Conservation Act creates a system where destruction can be legalized without dialogue. Indigenous voices, lands, and teachings are bypassed in favor of industry timelines. That is not environmental justice. It is sanctioned exclusion.

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Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025

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Species do not exist apart from people. In Indigenous law, they are relations, teachers, and co-creators. Removing them from protection is an act of violence—not just against biodiversity, but against entire knowledge systems.

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Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025

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This legislation was created without proper consultation or co-development with Indigenous nations. It is yet another top-down framework that strips power away from those who have been defending life since long before Canada existed.

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When governments remove species protections, they are also removing the ability of Indigenous nations to fulfill their responsibilities to the land. This bill is more than deregulation—it is a direct disruption of relational governance.

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Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025

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Bill 5 claims to balance environmental protection with economic growth. But removing protections from 106 species, replacing scientific oversight with government control, and opening habitat to industry isn’t balance—it’s bait-and-switch.

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The language of “streamlining” is not neutral. It’s a rhetorical weapon used to justify the gutting of ecological safeguards. These reforms do not balance anything—they simply tilt the scale toward industry and silence.

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Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025

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The phrase “support faster development” appears repeatedly in the justification for Bill 5. That’s the core goal—not conservation, not protection, not survival. This legislation is about speed, not safety, and life cannot survive under a ticking clock.

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Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025

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170681

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The government frames this amendment as economic resilience. But resilience isn’t built by destroying the ecosystems that sustain life. Species protections are not a barrier to progress—they are the foundation of it.

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Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025

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If we define strength by how fast we can deregulate, we are building a system that collapses faster. Ontario’s economy cannot outlast mass extinction. Environmental health and economic security are not opponents. They are entwined.

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Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025

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You cannot call it “balance” when one side—life itself—has no seat at the table. These amendments serve developers, not ecosystems. They widen the profit margin by narrowing the future.

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Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025

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170688

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The SCA is branded as a smarter, more efficient system. But efficiency in this context means fewer safeguards, less time for review, and more shortcuts to irreversible harm. The government is calling a bulldozer a balancing act.

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Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025

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170689

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These changes are presented as necessary to “unleash” the economy. But what happens when you unleash destruction? What happens when you remove every obstacle to harm? You don’t create strength. You create collapse.

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