Ontario’s new species law puts feds to shame

One year from now, Parliament is required to review the effectiveness of SARA. Bureaucrats are now beginning work on the file. They will be hard-pressed to spin this law as a success story.

Last year, the federal government refused a request from Canadian environmental groups to protect the spotted owl in B.C. The owl is one of the most endangered animals in Canada, its decline almost entirely due to clear-cut logging in their habitat. The federal government declined to use the Spec...

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