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Proposed boundaries for the regional consolidation of Ontario’s conservation authorities

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Under the proposed model, decisions affecting our communities will be made by a board representing up to 80 municipalities, diluting accountability and transparency. Local knowledge is not just valuable, it’s essential. Read more

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Proposed boundaries for the regional consolidation of Ontario’s conservation authorities

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173587

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We're facing overlapping crises in staggering biodiversity loss with extinction rates hundreds of times faster than natural rates, and a world breaching the essential 1.5 celsius warming cap under climate change, with Ontario currently set to miss our 2030 goals by megatons. Read more

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Proposed boundaries for the regional consolidation of Ontario’s conservation authorities

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Speeding up building housing is useless if you live next to a natural hazard and have your housing ruined because you're within a flood plain / wetland, etc. we need our conservation authorities to understand local hazards and needs in order to find the right fit for housing locations. Read more

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Proposed boundaries for the regional consolidation of Ontario’s conservation authorities

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173589

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The proposed boundaries are unnecessarily large. For Huron Superior it makes no sense that Thunder Bay is in the same CA as the western shores of Lake Huron. I'm generally not opposed to the idea of amalgamations, especially where CA boundaries are comprised of many smaller watersheds (i.e. Read more

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Proposed boundaries for the regional consolidation of Ontario’s conservation authorities

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I do not personally believe this will be a good change, local staff that know the areas they’re working with the best should keep their jobs instead of changing the number of regions and staff working them. Read more

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Proposed boundaries for the regional consolidation of Ontario’s conservation authorities

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Let Conservation Authorities do their jobs. Sure the system isn’t perfect but cutting 36 local authorities down to 7 and letting some new provincial agency run by ‘political appointees’ is not the way to go about it. Local control and expertise is the better way deal with conservation. Read more

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Proposed boundaries for the regional consolidation of Ontario’s conservation authorities

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This change to the number of conservation authorities will not produce the benefits touted by the proposal but rather reduce the amount of care and oversight made in decisions regarding development of wet lands and plains, which are crucial in Ontario's ecosystems. Read more

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Proposed boundaries for the regional consolidation of Ontario’s conservation authorities

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173601

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Ontariens care about the environment and our future. We need to protect these vital ecosystems especially as climate crisis threatens their (and our) survival. Keep local authorities local. This would be extremely disappointing, hurtful, and potentially devastating. Read more

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Proposed boundaries for the regional consolidation of Ontario’s conservation authorities

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Removing conservation authorities can/will introduce several concerns and risks. Cutting the authorities down to only seven does not provide adequate representation or coverage for certain areas of Ontario, especially those in northern and rural Ontario. Read more

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Conservation authorities need to be seperate and local in order to facilitate better scientific research on the needs of the people living in high risk areas. With a more centralized conservation authority this knowledge of the land is gone and will endanger people living in these high risk areas. Read more

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