ENVIRONMENTAL ELECTION PROMISES ARE UNDERWAY

I was forwarded an e-mail which was written by Derek Stack and John Jackson of Great Lakes United (GLU). This group is a bi-national one which has long been involved with Great Lakes water quality issues. Their Release describes a proposed Great lakes Protection Act which the ruling Liberals are promising will occur if they are re-elected here in Ontario next month. The Province (Liberals) are allegedly intending to invest $16 million of our money for among other things beach cleanups around the Great lakes. As was pointed out by GLU that ends up per year being less than $ 1 million per lake. The significance of the Liberal promise seems to be that they (Ontario) are the first state or province around the Great lakes to have an official Great Lakes Protection Act. Yeah that's exactly what we need: more legislation that will be circumvented, ignored or unenforced. Canada are already world leaders in (bullshit) legislation on many fronts. What really may be relevant to Woolwich Township as well as Waterloo Region would be if this proposed legislation actually expanded Areas of Concern (AOC) to include the Grand River, which flows into Lake Erie. This might actually bring attention to the myriad industrial polluters in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Elmira including Uniroyal/Chemtura.