Government is also planning changes to the wetland evaluation system, as indicated by a recent posting on the environmental registry that cites the need to build 1.5 million homes in 10 years
Half of the wetlands in southern Ontario have never been considered for provincial protection, and new changes planned by the government as part of its housing plan could further put them at risk, the auditor general said in a recent report.
Since 1983, when Ontario’s wetland evaluation system was established, about half of the wetlands in the southern portion of the province have been assessed to determine if they are in need of a provincial protection designation, the auditor found. Only 30 evaluations have been done in the past decade, and just one was completed in the past year, her report said.
A spokesperson for the minister of natural resources and forestry said the proposed changes to the wetland evaluation system would remove duplication and streamline the evaluation process. “The proposed reworking of the will mean that very few wetlands would be deemed provincially significant in the future and that many, if not most, existing could lose that designation,” the group said in a statement.
He said that in addition to providing less protection for endangered species, the new system would stop considering wetlands as complexes.
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