Well done! I also expect that various fairly well known environmental groups may also have done the same already or are in the process. The federal Bill is known as C-5 and the provincial Bill is named simply Bill 5. Whether or not these Bills are unconstitutional as claimed I do not know. What I do know is that they make a mockery of earlier protective legislations done in the public interest as they afforded environmental protections to our natural environment whether air, soil, ground water or surface water.
Right now I'm sitting indoors after being advised that my outdoor air is dangerous to my health. At age 75 I take that seriously. The danger is both smoke from western forest fires (caused by climate change/global warming) as well as other industrial pollutants. At the same time I run my tap water coming from a pipeline from Waterloo through a Brita filter both to get rid of the chlorine smell as well as to assist in further reduction of glyphosate and dozens of other low level industrial pollutants and solvents from Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge's industrial days and free ground discharge. As bad as Waterloo Region's water has become it's still better than the groundwater mess up here in Elmira thanks to Uniroyal Chemical.
Nevertheless these provincial and federal political idiots think it is just dandy to rewrite (i.e. scrap) or bypass protective environmental legislation just to milk the very last nickel of profit from our natural resources at the very lowest cost possible to the proponents of these schemes. This low cost of course is by externalizing all the environmental costs of waste disposal, rehabilitation, cleanup costs etc. onto both the taxpayer and onto the natural environment. In other words more environmental degradation.
My best wishes go to our First Nations fighters as well as to our environmental groups involved in fighting both Bills (Bill 5 & C-5). The Waterloo Region Record carries the following story titled "First Nations launch legal challenge" on page A5 of today's newspaper.
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