<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2026-03-23" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-03-23" lims:current-date="2026-03-31" lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560444" lims:id="1560444" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SOR" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560445" lims:id="1560445"><InstrumentNumber>SOR/2026-56</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>23</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>4</MM><DD>1</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560446" lims:id="1560446"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">SPECIES AT RISK ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560447" lims:id="1560447">Critical Habitat of the Plains Minnow (Hybognathus placitus) Order</LongTitle></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560448" lims:id="1560448"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560449" lims:id="1560449" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the Plains Minnow (<Language xml:lang="la">Hybognathus placitus</Language>) is a wildlife species that is listed as a threatened species in Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the <XRefExternal reference-level="federal" reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-6029_hq_1764099066">a</FootnoteRef>;</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-6029_hq_1764099066" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2002, c. 29</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560450" lims:id="1560450" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the recovery strategy that identified the critical habitat of that species has been included in the Species at Risk Public Registry;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560451" lims:id="1560451" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>And whereas no portion of the critical habitat of that species that is specified in the annexed Order is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2)<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-6029_hq_1764099090">b</FootnoteRef> of that Act;</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-6029_hq_1764099090" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>S.C. 2015, c. 10, s. 60</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560452" lims:id="1560452" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Therefore, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans makes the annexed <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2026-56">Critical Habitat of the Plains Minnow (Hybognathus placitus) Order</XRefExternal> under subsection 58(4) and paragraph (5)(a) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-6029_hq_1764099066">a</FootnoteRef>.</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560453" lims:id="1560453" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no" topmarginspacing="14"><Text>Ottawa,  March 19, 2026</Text><TableGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560454" lims:id="1560454" bilingual="yes" orientation="portrait" pointsize="11pt" rowbreak="no" spanlanguages="no" spanmarginalnotecol="no" topmarginspacing="50pt"><table lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560455" lims:id="1560455" frame="none"><tgroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560456" lims:id="1560456" cols="2"><colspec colname="1" colwidth="100*" /><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="100.00*" /><tbody lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560457" lims:id="1560457"><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="30"><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></Order><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560458" lims:id="1560458"><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560459" lims:id="1560459"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560460" lims:id="1560460">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 Plains Minnow (<Language xml:lang="la">Hybognathus placitus</Language>), 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="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560461" lims:id="1560461" type="CIFnobold"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2026-03-23" lims:enacted-date="2026-03-23" lims:fid="1560462" lims:id="1560462">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>