Not taking sides here - but we are mixing up common names versus taxonomy (scientific names) - so I'm confused (and curious) as to why this even an issue ..... here's my understanding .....
From a biological and classification perspective - all "coyotes" are, in fact, are "wolves".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf
There is
no single purebred wild species within the genus "canis" in North America.
https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nu...t-coyote-33123
The Algonquin wolf is a hybrid of the grey wolf and common prairie wolf (coyote).
Even isolated populations of Grey (Timber) wolves have some Coyote genes, albeit less than the sub species described as Algonquin Wolf.
The term "wolf" or "coyote" is a common name, and, purely from a scientific perspective, another species under the same genus.
Any special interest group, on either side of this argument, is going to need to deal with that little "issue" if the "plan" is to use genus/species as a defining the status of the Algonquin wolf.