The proposed changes to the boundaries on Ontario's 36 conservations authorities would completely change the reasons for their existence and success.
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I am writing in strong opposition of any changes that will negatively impact Ontario's internally recognized approach to water management by limiting the effectiveness of our conservation authorities (CA).
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This proposal does not put the people of Ontario first - it jeopardizes their future. The proposed boundaries will just make it easier for the corrupt Premier to line his developer friends pockets with money while people move into overpriced homes built in flood plains.
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I’m worried that permitting will be completed too fast without the proper assessments (ie species at risk surveys and flood studies) which will weaken environmental protection with this new boundary.
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This proposal a flagrant attempt to circumvent environmental laws for profit, with the excuse of the economy when people are scared because of geopolitical events. Canada and Ontario are better than this, and this proposal should not be approved.
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I vehemently oppose this proposition.
Local CA’s have for years done an exemplary job at maintain and preserving our conservation lands, watersheds, and vital ecosystems.
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Board governance. Do not allow this to be municipal appointed board. The work is too important. Board members should be skills based and with CA submit matter expertise. The mistake would be to leave governance as it is today.
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The proposed centralizing of conservation authorities will greatly reduce the voice of small/rural community voices, as currently every municipality with a watershed has a board member.
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I live within the Lakehead Region Conservation Authority (LRCA) area, Robinson-Superior Treaty and traditional territory of Fort William First Nation. I have not seem this proposal advertised on the LRCA social media etc.
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I do not support the proposal outlined in ERO Notice 025-1257, which seeks to consolidate Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities into regional entities.
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I support the concept of consolidating the conservation authorities as proposed. However the services beyond their core mandate should be by willing partners and not legislated in any fashion.
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Do not implement this, it will cause unnecessary chaos in managing our watersheds properly, it will not make anything easier, it’s pointless.
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This proposal will slow down conservation. If put into action it would make it harder to manage our watersheds! This will threaten conservation everywhere by allowing them to increase suburban sprawl! No!
I oppose ERO 025-1257 because the proposal to consolidate Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities into seven regional bodies—under a new provincial agency—does not present a transparent problem definition, baseline performance data, or a cost-benefit and risk analysis commensurate with the scale of ch
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There are already serious challenges with the current RCA boundaries. Many of the RCAs are headquartered so far away from where conservation needs to be supported (eg set up in towns when the watershed starts many hundreds of kilometers away). That is today. Consolidation can only make this worse.
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This has got to be the stupidest "plan to consolidate the province’s 36 conservation authorities into REGIONAL conservation authorities that continue to ALIGN WITH WATERSHED BOUNDARIES".
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This proposal will give the government the authority to override the laws that are currently in place to protect the natural spaces and conservation of important areas.
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This government has already reduced the powers of Conservation local authorities. The breadth of their oversight must be reinstated. I do not see how reducing the number of authority areas will yield better protection of the environment. I am suspicious of this change and do NOT support it.
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Please don’t do this, it will be worse for watershed management because more things will go unnoticed when there is less authorities managing larger areas. Please don’t do this, keep conservation authorities as they are!!!!
Conservation authorities are very important for caring for their watersheds and the communities within them. Speaking from my own experience, I worked in both amalgamated and non-among conservation authorities.
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