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The bill containing contentious changes to Ontario’s Conservation Authorities Act (CAA) is now law, raising big questions about the future of the province’s 36 conservation authorities
In passing Bill 229, the Protect, Support and Recover from COVID-19 Act, the province called Schedule 6 a move to cut red tape for developers and push conservation authorities back to their core business of flood control.
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Under Schedule 6, vocally opposed by the authorities, Conservation Ontario and groups such as Environmental Defence, the Canadian Environmental Law Association and Ontario Nature, the province also is to set out conservation authorities’ mandatory core programs, forcing them to negotiate new funding agreements with member municipalities to continue providing non-mandatory programs.