Yesterday I spoke about former teacher Caroline Burjoski and her unnecessary battle with the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB). Unnecessary in the sense that Ms. Burjoski had every right to address the Trustees as a Delegation and in fact was a pre-registered Delegate who had advised them ahead of time what her topic was (who/how does the Board decide what books to remove from school libraries) , when she was asked. Now clearly her stated topic was accurate despite her being interrupted and stopped cold within about four minutes, long before she had completed her Delegation. The point however is not whether or not her stated topic was 50% accurate, 75% accurate or even 100% accurate. By what right (other than might) do the Trustees have to pre-censor incoming citizen Delegates to a meeting of the Trustees? That is exactly what they are doing by demanding the topic which only has to be an educational one, no more and no less?
The Trustees are merely representatives of the public. Delegates however are the real deal. The Trustees work for them. not the other way around. Trustees instead of pre-censoring and pre-judging incoming Delegates for political correctness (i.e. only agreement allowed with established Board directives) need to learn how to act like grownups, suck it up and listen respectfully to all citizen Delegations not just those that the majority of Trustees agree with. Something like how they should behave with their own trustee colleagues who do not agree with some Board policies. Through anti-democratic policies the WRDSB are only allowing friends and fellow travellors to speak to the public via Delegation. That is an attempt to lead the public by the nose and manipulate public sentiment and approval in their direction.
Back to the RAC meeting. It was primarily bullsh*+. There was (thankfully) only a brief update on the RAC/TAG Terms of Reference. The final report will soon be submitted to Council and it most likely will be a stinker. CPAC (Citizens Public Advisory Committee) were unable to get the face to face meeting we wanted with the councillors however multiple CPAC members including Richard, Dr. Holt, Sebastian and myself all submitted written comments primarily advising that RAC/TAG had zero moral authority after how they were manufactured based upon the wishes of Chemtura (Uniroyal) and the corrupt Ontario Ministry of Environment (MECP).
The second bullsh*+ item was #7. titled "Status Update on 2028 MECP Order Deadline". This was primarily Ramin on behalf of Lanxess and Jason on behalf of the MECP spinning their gross failures to achieve cleanup into some sort of victory. They went on about how important and necessary public consultation was going to be regarding the formulation of a new Order or Directive from the MECP relevant to the failed 2028 deadline. Again they are trying to lead the public by the nose. Who the hell from the public asked them to do that? NOBODY!!!!
The last couple of Control Orders (1991, 2000) certainly didn't do the job. Uniroyal, Crompton, Chemtura and Lanxess have done exactly what they wanted from day one and that was to spend the least amount of money possible and hope for the best. It failed and there were lots of cleanup suggestions along the way from citizens that were given short shrift or none at all. One really odourous suggestion from Ramin was to do the final water treament immediately before sending it into the public water system versus discharging directly into the Canagagigue Creek. That idea stinks partially because final treatment now does not achieve Ontario Drinking Water Standards (ODWS) but a much weaker criteria because it is going into the Creek for immediate dilution etc.
The verbal emphasis on public consultation is just that: talk. They've never had good public consultation only bad to non-existent the last eight years with the behaviour of Woolwich Township, Lanxess and the MECP. They will always talk about consultation when in fact they are terrified of it.
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