<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2026-05-04" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-05-04" lims:current-date="2026-05-26" lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574232" lims:id="1574232" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SOR" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574233" lims:id="1574233"><InstrumentNumber>SOR/2026-79</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>5</MM><DD>4</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>5</MM><DD>27</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574234" lims:id="1574234"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">SPECIES AT RISK ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574235" lims:id="1574235">Critical Habitat of the Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) Lake Ontario Populations Order</LongTitle></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574236" lims:id="1574236"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574237" lims:id="1574237" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the Channel Darter (<Language xml:lang="la">Percina copelandi</Language>) Lake Ontario populations is a wildlife species that is listed as an endangered species in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the <XRefExternal reference-level="federal" reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-6028_hq_1763672595">a</FootnoteRef>;</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-6028_hq_1763672595" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2002, c. 29</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574238" lims:id="1574238" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Minister responsible for the Parks Canada Agency, namely the Minister of the Environment, have together prepared a recovery strategy identifying the critical habitat of that species and that recovery strategy has been included in the Species at Risk Public Registry;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574239" lims:id="1574239" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>And whereas no portion of the critical habitat of that species is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2)<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-6025_hq_1763672575">b</FootnoteRef> of that Act;</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-6025_hq_1763672575" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>S.C. 2015, c. 10, s. 60</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574240" lims:id="1574240" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Therefore, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Minister of the Environment make the annexed <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2026-79">Critical Habitat of the Channel Darter (<Language xml:lang="la">Percina copelandi</Language>) Lake Ontario Populations Order</XRefExternal> under subsection 58(4) and paragraph 58(5)(a) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-6028_hq_1763672595">a</FootnoteRef>.</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574241" lims:id="1574241" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no" topmarginspacing="15"><Text>Ottawa, April 14, 2026</Text><TableGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574242" lims:id="1574242" bilingual="yes" orientation="portrait" pointsize="11pt" rowbreak="no" spanlanguages="no" spanmarginalnotecol="no" topmarginspacing="6pt"><table lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574243" lims:id="1574243" frame="none"><tgroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574244" lims:id="1574244" cols="2"><colspec colname="1" colwidth="100*" /><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="100.00*" /><tbody lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574245" lims:id="1574245"><row rowsep="0"><entry colsep="0" nameend="COLSPEC0" namest="1" rowsep="0" valign="top"><SignatureBlock justification="center" width="20pc"><SignatureTitle justification="center"><Language xml:lang="fr">La ministre des Pêches et des Océans</Language>,</SignatureTitle><SignatureLine justification="center" topmarginspacing="6"><Leader leader="solid" length="20pc" /></SignatureLine><SignatureName justification="center">Joanne Thompson</SignatureName><SignatureTitle justification="center"><Language xml:lang="en">Minister of Fisheries and Oceans</Language></SignatureTitle></SignatureBlock></entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table></TableGroup></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574246" lims:id="1574246" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no" topmarginspacing="15"><Text>Ottawa, March 27, 2026</Text><TableGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574247" lims:id="1574247" bilingual="yes" orientation="portrait" pointsize="11pt" rowbreak="no" spanlanguages="no" spanmarginalnotecol="no" topmarginspacing="6pt"><table lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574248" lims:id="1574248" frame="none"><tgroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574249" lims:id="1574249" cols="2"><colspec colname="1" colwidth="100*" /><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="100.00*" /><tbody lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574250" lims:id="1574250"><row rowsep="0"><entry colsep="0" nameend="COLSPEC0" namest="1" rowsep="0" valign="top"><SignatureBlock justification="center" width="20pc"><SignatureTitle justification="center"><Language xml:lang="fr">La ministre de l’Environnement</Language>,</SignatureTitle><SignatureLine justification="center" topmarginspacing="6"><Leader leader="solid" length="20pc" /></SignatureLine><SignatureName justification="center">Julie Dabrusin </SignatureName><SignatureTitle justification="center">Minister of the Environment</SignatureTitle></SignatureBlock></entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table></TableGroup></Provision></Order><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574251" lims:id="1574251"><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574252" lims:id="1574252"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574253" lims:id="1574253">Application</MarginalNote><Label>1</Label><Text>Subsection 58(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-level="federal" reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal> applies to the critical habitat of the Channel Darter (<Language xml:lang="la">Percina copelandi</Language>) Lake Ontario populations, which is identified in the recovery strategy for that species that is included in the Species at Risk Public Registry.</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574254" lims:id="1574254" type="CIFnobold"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574255" lims:id="1574255">Coming into force</MarginalNote><Label>2</Label><Text>This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.</Text></Section></Body></Regulation>