<?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="1574208" lims:id="1574208" 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="1574209" lims:id="1574209"><InstrumentNumber>SOR/2026-78</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="1574210" lims:id="1574210"><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="1574211" lims:id="1574211">Critical Habitat of the Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) Lake Erie Populations Order</LongTitle></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574212" lims:id="1574212"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574213" lims:id="1574213" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the Channel Darter (<Language xml:lang="la">Percina copelandi</Language>) Lake Erie 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_81000-2-6025_hq_1763672595">a</FootnoteRef>;</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-6025_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="1574214" lims:id="1574214" 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="1574215" lims:id="1574215" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>And whereas a 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 and, under subsection 58(5) of that Act, that portion must be excluded from the annexed Order;</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="1574216" lims:id="1574216" 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-2026-78">Critical Habitat of the Channel Darter (<Language xml:lang="la">Percina copelandi</Language>) Lake Erie 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_81000-2-6025_hq_1763672595">a</FootnoteRef>.</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574217" lims:id="1574217" format-ref="indent-0-0" keep-with-next="yes" 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="1574218" lims:id="1574218" 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="1574219" lims:id="1574219" frame="none"><tgroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574220" lims:id="1574220" 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="1574221" lims:id="1574221"><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="1574222" lims:id="1574222" 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="1574223" lims:id="1574223" 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="1574224" lims:id="1574224" frame="none"><tgroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574225" lims:id="1574225" 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="1574226" lims:id="1574226"><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="1574227" lims:id="1574227"><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574228" lims:id="1574228"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574229" lims:id="1574229">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 Erie populations — which is identified in the recovery strategy for that species that is included in the Species at Risk Public Registry — other than the portion of that critical habitat that is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2) of that Act.</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574230" lims:id="1574230" type="CIFnobold"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2026-05-04" lims:enacted-date="2026-05-04" lims:fid="1574231" lims:id="1574231">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>