What we protect today shapes the world our children inherit. By weakening the Endangered Species Act, this government is choosing corporate favor over legacy, extraction over protection, and silence over stewardship.
There is no neutral stance in extinction. You either act to protect, or you permit the loss. Bill 5 actively permits loss. And history will record that choice.
This legislation abandons the principle of intergenerational justice. We are not owners of the land—we are its temporary guardians. And Bill 5 makes us negligent ones.
The government is trading ancient ecosystems for short-term convenience. But when the trees are gone, the wetlands drained, and the pollinators silenced, there will be nothing left to bargain with.
We teach our children to clean up after themselves. To be responsible. This bill teaches the opposite: take what you want, deregulate the mess, and leave it for someone else to fix.
The loss of even one species diminishes the world in ways we cannot predict. Each extinction tightens the knot around the future. How many knots before it doesn’t hold?
The future deserves biodiversity. Deserves clean water, intact wetlands, thriving pollinators, living forests. This bill strips away those birthrights in exchange for developer handshakes.
November 10, 2025
Re: Proposed legislative and regulatory amendments to enable the Species Conservation Act, 2025 (ERO number 025-0909)
Submitted electronically to: Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks
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Every person alive today is a descendant of someone who lived in harmony with the land. Bill 5 breaks that lineage. It severs the sacred trust between human and habitat.
Comments of Biigtigong Nishnaabeg (formerly Ojibways of the Pic River First Nation) on the proposals related to the Species Conservation Act, 2025. Attachment included.
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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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If this government won’t protect life for its own sake, then protect it for your children. Protect it so they don’t grow up asking, “Why didn’t you try?”
Wetlands are the kidneys of the planet. They filter water, prevent flooding, and support irreplaceable biodiversity. Gutting protections under Bill 5 means deliberately poisoning our own life support systems.
Pollinators are collapsing globally—and this legislation actively accelerates that collapse by removing species from protection without scientific oversight. No bees, no food. No excuse.
The Species Conservation Act creates loopholes that allow government-controlled exemptions for destruction of habitat, even for critically endangered pollinators. This is state-sanctioned extinction.
Monarch butterflies, yellow-banded bumblebees, and other vital pollinators already face steep population declines. Their removal from protection to accommodate land development is indefensible.
Wetlands are not wastelands. They’re sacred ecosystems that support amphibians, birds, insects, mammals, and plants—many of which appear on the 106 species now facing removal.
With Schedule 2, Ontario invites corporate actors to destroy habitats without fear of consequence. Permitting this under the guise of 'modernization' is environmental erasure.
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