Can we take this as an official NPCA stance on this issue?  Are we to understand that the NPCA disagrees with the assessments that were done by ecological professionals at the MNRF?   You are the vice-chair of the NPCA aren't you?  The NPCA Board is comprised of 15 members, the vast majority of whom are elected officials (11), none of them are experts or anywhere near experts in this field.  What the NPCA board has done though is to try to convince us that it is ok to sacrifice these wetlands for development because they can re-create them somewhere else...interestingly this was never said by NPCA scientists, they were not allowed to address the issue....it was only said by board members and the CAO.  Is it not the NPCA's job to enforce provincial policy?   Provincial policy protects these significant wetlands...all of it...it is not the role of a Board comprised of politicians to try to do otherwise.