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IMPORTANT ISSUE:
Bill 55 - Ontario’s 2012 Budget includes damaging Amendments to the Endangered Species Act and the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act!

We are alarmed to learn that significant amendments to dozens of important pieces of legislation are contained within Bill 55, Strong Action for Ontario Act - the 2012 Ontario budget bill. These changes to legislation include serious modifications to the Endangered Species Act, 2006 (ESA) to allow for wide ranging exemptions from the Act, and weakening of the process for the preparation and review of park management plans under the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act, 2006 (PPCRA). Many of the changes proposed have no relevance to budget matters!

This method of including legislative amendments in a budget bill abrogates parliamentary process which opens such proposed amendments to public consultation. The normal process of posting proposed legislative changes on the Environmental Registry has been ignored.

We urge you to join our efforts to have the proposed amendments to the PPCRA and the ESA removed from Bill 55, the Budget Bill, and insist that they be posted on the Environmental Registry and opened to full public discussion in accordance with normal parliamentary process.

Click here to view a letter from The Quetico Foundation to the Minister of Finance expressing our concerns.

Click here for a Quetico Foundation Press Release on the subject (which also contains many useful links concerning Bill 55, the ESA and other related matters).

Click here for the comprehensive analysis of Bill 55 by the Environmental Law Association and Ecojustice.

Welcome to The Quetico Foundation

The Quetico Foundation is a registered charity which is dedicated to the protection of wilderness class parks, and particularly Quetico Park, Ontario, Canada. The Foundation was formed as part of the joint American-Canadian effort to protect the unique wilderness areas in the borderlands, west of Lake Superior.

Since its founding in 1954, The Quetico Foundation has been dedicated to the protection of wilderness, with particular focus on Quetico Wilderness Provincial Park. Established in 1913, Quetico is one of Ontario’s oldest parks, and its second largest wilderness class park. A paddling haven, it hugs the northern edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, forming a unique international natural landscape.

To find out more about the Foundation, Quetico Park and other wilderness class parks in Ontario, click on the topics listed in the main menu (top left).