On Friday, Ontario's Environment Minister Jeff Yurek advised the province’s 36 conservation authorities to “wind down” all programs except for flood control, drinking water source protection and land management, defined as their core mandate.
Yurek said the changes are necessary to bring conservation authorities back to their “core mandate” and help manage the agencies’ budgets and programs.
“Bill 108 passed in spring, some of that was stating a core mandate that conservation authorities are to abide by such as dealing with natural hazards such as flooding, protecting conservation lands and managing it, our source water protection and continuing that Lake Simcoe’s rehabilitation,” Yurek, the MPP for Elgin-Middlesex-London, said Tuesday afternoon.
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