A report released Tuesday by Ontario's auditor general examined the state of Ontario's environment
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
Nearly three-quarters of southern Ontario's former wetlands are gone today, the report released by auditor general Bonnie Lysyk's office on Tuesday said. Prior to the 1800s, when population growth in settlements that became part of southern Ontario began rapidly increasing, the region had an abundance of wetlands.
The 132-page report published by Lysyk's office on the state of the environment in Ontario was organized into five sections, looking at the state of the province's air, water, land and waste, climate, and nature and wildlife. For each area, the auditor wrote about how changes affect human health and summarized the progress the Ontario government is making toward targets for improving the status of each.
In August 2021, under Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government, the Ministry of Natural Resources told the auditor's general office that it cancelled this strategy and its targets. The ministry no longer has a way to measure the "quality and function of remaining wetlands," Lysyk's report says. This could make it harder for the government to designate which wetlands are important and effects its understanding of carbon storage in Ontario.
On Tuesday, while answering journalists' questions at Queen's Park after releasing her state of the environment report, Lysyk said "now we're in a time of development, I think it becomes important to think about the land use both for agricultural purposes, for wetlands, for forests — all in the spirit of prospering Ontario economically."
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