KNOCK KNOCK - STILL HERE

Uniroyal Chemical Ltd., now Lanxess Canada Inc. in conjunction with the Ontario Ministry of Environment (M.O.E.) have long espoused public consultation. It's good politics and let's face it, as long as the citizens are not professionals in the field of endeavour being studied, then they can be bafflegabbed, bullshitted, intimidated and generally lead by the noses. All the time of course the guilty parties can and do tell them what a wonderful job that they are doing. So what happened between 2011 and 2015?

Well there were a number of professionals involved as well as one semi-retired at the time, environmental activist with 25 years direct experience in the Uniroyal/Elmira Water Crisis. That would be me. The professionals involved were experts in biology (Dr. Henry Regier), health & safety plus environmental remediation (Ron Campbell), a certified chemist and expert as well in health & safety matters (Graham Chevreau), David Marks (hydrogeologist), plus a longtime health care practitioner who worked in intensive care units in Toronto hospitals namely Vivienne Delaney. The other members were intelligent, well educated and honest (Dr.s Dan & Sebastian) including CPAC's sub-committee SWAT which had a former head of mathematics (Rich Clausi). We won't mention Mr. flip flop, a Woolwich councillor.

The most important matter regarding the professionals is that firstly they were not being paid for their time. They were real volunteers working on behalf of the community. They were not the Steve Quigleys, Alan Deals or other hired guns of the polluter selling their version of the truth to the citizens. The professionals on CPAC were not economical with the truth as were their paid counterparts and most importantly they had the courage of their convictions. This is in contrast to a professional hired by APTE/Woolwich in the past who was always looking over his shoulder afraid to say "shit" for fear that it would cost him his next gig with the M.O.E. or that he could be blacklisted by the likes of Uniroyal/Chemtura's consulting company. In other words there were no undeclared conflicts of interest as there were in the past. This includes two members who had been personally benefiting through their association with CPAC for years without advising the old CPAC members including myself.

Hence the new Woolwich Township Council in late 2014, kissing cousins to the provincial Liberal government and all its corruption, conspired with both the Ontario M.O.E. and Chemtura to eliminate the honest but embarrassing to the status quo CPAC of the day. They did this via lying, manipulation and all the time proven methods that filth (politicians) are revered for around the world. In regards to our new Conservative provincial government ask the real Michael Harris what he thinks of made up, back door campaigns to remove the people's choice in Kitchener-Conestoga. Same ethics, same cowardice, same filth just a different level of government.