CPAC "BOYCOTTS / OPPOSES" SECRET MEETING

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys the following story titled "Woolwich citizen committee opposes secret meeting". The on-line Record version is titled "Chemtura committee boycotts secret meeting on its future". Regardless of the verb boycotts or opposes; the message is clear. This meeting being promoted by new Mayor Sandy Shantz is a sham. Chemtura and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment met privately with Mayor Shantz and Councillor Bauman either late last year or as admitted, early this year (January), in order to set up a process to weaken and water down the best CPAC there ever has been. This is a CPAC without members being bribed or given gratuities by either the M.O.E., Conestoga Rovers, Chemtura or the Region of Waterloo. These bribes could even include environmental honours from local authorities not to mention expense paid trips and more.

All credible deniability has been removed from Mayor Shantz and this Council regarding these various gratuites; by myself in writing. She and they know all about the National Advisory Panel of the Chemical Industry Association of Canada sending an unqualified individual all over North America on junkets. They know all about working on behalf of Conestoga Rovers and the Region of Waterloo. To be inviting this pair to a meeting to discuss the very CPAC that they personally attacked without justification four years ago is disgusting. To be criticizing me for attacking this pair of former collegues is the height of hypocrisy. Mayor Shantz knows they led the charge seven and a half years ago to remove me from CPAC. She knows that one of them was the lead source to a scurrilous recent self published book attacking me personally.

Dr. Dan Holt, CPAC Chair stated that "...there isn't anything wrong with the committee, rather it was working too well.". Furthermore "The reason they (Chemtura/M.O.E.) quit coming is we've been asking them some pretty hard questions." This Mayor is in bed with Chemtura Canada and their corrupt regulator, the M.O.E.. Off-site discharge of Dioxins and DDT has been discovered and confirmed by a professional hydrogeologist. Chemtura and the M.O.E. have been grossly negligent and this new Mayor and Council are riding to their rescue. That's what this secret meeting is all about.