<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2020-02-17" lims:lastAmendedDate="2020-02-17" lims:current-date="2020-11-17" lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227342" lims:id="1227342" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SOR" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227343" lims:id="1227343"><InstrumentNumber>SOR/2020-25</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2020</YYYY><MM>2</MM><DD>17</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2020</YYYY><MM>11</MM><DD>18</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227344" lims:id="1227344"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">SPECIES AT RISK ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227345" lims:id="1227345">Critical Habitat of the Paxton Lake Benthic Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) Order</LongTitle></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227346" lims:id="1227346"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227347" lims:id="1227347" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes"><Text>Whereas the Paxton Lake Benthic Threespine Stickleback (<Language xml:lang="la">Gasterosteus aculeatus</Language>) is a wildlife species that is listed as an endangered species in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_a">a</FootnoteRef>;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227348" lims:id="1227348" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes"><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="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227349" lims:id="1227349" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes"><Text>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_b">b</FootnoteRef> of that Act;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227350" lims:id="1227350" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes"><Text>And whereas the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans is of the opinion that the annexed Order would affect an area in respect of which a wildlife management board is authorized by a land claims agreement to perform functions in respect of wildlife species and, pursuant to subsection 58(8) of that Act, has consulted the wildlife management board in question with respect to the Order;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227351" lims:id="1227351" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes"><Text>Therefore, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, pursuant to subsections 58(4) and (5) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_a">a</FootnoteRef>, makes the annexed <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2020-25">Critical Habitat of the Paxton Lake Benthic Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) Order</XRefExternal>.</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227352" lims:id="1227352" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes"><Text>Ottawa, February 13, 2020</Text><SignatureBlock justification="left" width="20pc"><SignatureName justification="left" topmarginspacing="12">Bernadette Jordan</SignatureName><SignatureTitle justification="left">Minister of Fisheries and Oceans</SignatureTitle></SignatureBlock></Provision><Footnote id="fn_a" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2002, c. 29</Text></Footnote><Footnote id="fn_b" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>S.C. 2015, c. 10, s. 60</Text></Footnote></Order><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227353" lims:id="1227353"><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:lastAmendedDate="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227354" lims:id="1227354"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227355" lims:id="1227355">Application</MarginalNote><Label>1</Label><Text>Subsection 58(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal> applies to the critical habitat of the Paxton Lake Benthic Threespine Stickleback (<Language xml:lang="la">Gasterosteus aculeatus</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="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:lastAmendedDate="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227356" lims:id="1227356" type="CIFnobold"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2020-02-17" lims:enacted-date="2020-02-17" lims:fid="1227357" lims:id="1227357">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>