The Ontario Beekeepers Association says some of the suggestions in the Pollinator Health Blueprint could be positive supplements to the government's proposals.
However, OBA President Tibor Szabo argues the blueprint relies too heavily on voluntary compliance.
He calls that an unacceptably high-risk approach to pollinator protection.
The OBA supports the government proposal, which includes a call for an 80 per cent reduction in the use of neonic pesticides.
Szabo says that is needed to stop what the OBA considers the overuse of neonics on acreage where there is no benefit to the farmer but which is causing the decline in the bee population.
The beekeepers group contends the acute decline in population of bees in Ontario is tied to the widespread use of those pesticides.
The Pollinator Health Blueprint was assembled by a Grain Farmers of Ontario led task force.
