Climate resilience depends on local ecosystems absorbing stress. The SCA undercuts that capacity by fragmenting protections and allowing piecemeal destruction. Once that resilience is gone, disaster costs will rise exponentially.
Weakening protections during an ecological emergency ensures future economic instability. The losses may begin with species, but they will end with people—through floods, crop failures, and contaminated water.
The government’s own climate targets require intact ecosystems to meet carbon sequestration goals. Yet this legislation dismantles the very habitats that store carbon and regulate the atmosphere. It is policy contradiction in plain sight.
This bill will cause irreparable harms to human and nonhuman beings alike, regardless of their class conditions. The blind pursuit of economic growth, while all else remains collateral will be your own downfall. Reverse and repeal this action immediately.
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Ontario’s biodiversity is a living climate defense network. Repealing and replacing the ESA with a deregulated system dismantles that defense. Every species removed is another breach in the wall protecting us all.
I agree with comments from Ontario Nature regarding this proposal. I would like to add a few points regarding consultation and public participation as it relates to this proposal.
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This legislation is written to benefit those who can afford consultants, lawyers, and lobbyists. Developers will navigate the permit system with ease while species with no voice are cleared out quietly. That isn’t reform—it’s corruption by design
The SCA creates a tiered system of access: one where industries can buy their way through registration and permitting while vulnerable species are priced out of existence. The government is auctioning off the right to destroy.
When you introduce exceptions, registrations, and permits without strict independent oversight, you create loopholes. And where loopholes exist, exploitation follows. This bill invites corruption into the core of environmental law.
I oppose any bills or acts that harm or continue to harm our wildlife and nature. Climate crisis is real. By passing bills like this, you are killing endangered species, and endangering other species as well.
The species being removed from protection are not incidental. They are in the way of projects. This isn’t a neutral list. It’s a political filter—removing whatever makes extraction less convenient. The public deserves to see that clearly.
Restore protections unless you want to be voted out. I promise you that we will remember each and every single name and campaign against you. Your job is literally to
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Public trust in environmental governance depends on consistency, transparency, and accountability. This legislation undermines all three. It gives too much power to too few people, with too little resistance to abuse.
Let’s be honest—this is about money. The species removed, the processes simplified, the registrations made easier—all of it is about unlocking land for commercial use. And the government is helping industry do it faster.
The SCA establishes an approval machine. Developers input paperwork, and destruction comes out with a stamp. This is not environmental review. It’s industrial facilitation with a conservation mask.
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By weakening species protections, Ontario is creating long-term economic liability. Ecosystem collapse brings enormous costs—flood control failures, pest outbreaks, loss of pollination and tourism. No budget line item can replace a lost biome.
The idea that this legislation is “economically necessary” ignores the billions lost annually due to environmental degradation. Real economic strength is rooted in a healthy planet. Bill 5 gambles that away for short-term returns.
This is not governance—it’s asset stripping. The province is gutting environmental safeguards to benefit private enterprise while the public absorbs the cost of species loss, water pollution, and ecological instability.
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