Ontario’s environment minister can’t say if his planned overhaul of the province’s conservation authorities will be fast-tracked through the legislature and bypass committee, as the Ford government packs the agenda for a shortened fall sitting.

Last Friday, Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, Todd McCarthy, announced he would be creating a new central agency to oversee the province’s conservation authorities, which will be amalgamated from 36 bodies into seven.

The changes are set to be introduced in the form of two pieces of legislation, he said, the first of which will likely be tabled sometime in the fall.

The first piece of legislation, which has not yet been tabled, will create the Ontario Provincial Conservation Authority, tasked with bringing uniformity to

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