Bring Nature Back to the Budget | Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

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Submit your feedback before the consultation closes on July 22.

Tell the government: fast-tracking projects shouldn’t mean fast-tracking nature loss.

To submit your feedback:

Read the proposal
Prepare answers to questions.
Use the portal below to email your feedback by July 22, 2026.

Need inspiration? Here’s the letter CPAWS submitted to the government’s public consultation. Use the email portal below as a starting point (edit in your own words).

The email portal will send your message directly to the public consultation address, [email protected], and automatically cc’ your Member of Parliament based on your postal code. Amplifying your voice to even more decision makers, your message will also reach Ministers LeBlanc, MacKinnon and Dabrusin, whose portfolios are related to this issue.

Contact List, Ministers Accordion the cc’d list

Minister Dominic LeBlanc

President of the King's Privy Council for Canada; Minister, Internal Trade; Canada-U.S. Trade; Intergovernmental Affairs; One Canadian Economy
Minister Steven MacKinnon

Transport; Leader of the Government in the House of Commons; Member of the Board of Internal Economy
Minister Julie Dabrusin

Environment and Climate Change and Nature

Mr./Ms.

Engagement

Team

Government of Canada

To whom it may concern,

I support getting projects built efficiently, but not by weakening the environmental laws that protect nature and communities. As written, this proposal pulls back the progress we’ve made in conservation by decades:

- It allows the government to ignore legal protections for Species at Risk, enabling project approvals that could result in the extinction of species like the Southern Resident Killer Whale. 
    - Creating “Federal Economic Zones” opens the door for projects to be pre-approved without needing an assessment of potential environmental and social impacts, nor  consultation with affected communities. 
    - Limiting federal impact assessments to one year regardless of the project’s complexity, means approvals could move forward without understanding the implications on the surrounding people and nature, which could result in meaningless mitigation measures. 
    - Concentrating permits and approvals with one minister could reduce transparency and open the door for species and habitats to be treated as trade-offs for industrial opportunity. 
    
Nature protection is nation-building infrastructure. We can’t make Canada strong if we build on a foundation we’ve already broken. Please revise this proposal to meet the needs of the economy, while keeping environmental protections, community consultations and Indigenous engagement firmly in place.

Sincerely,
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