CRITICISM NOT ALWAYS EASY

The bad guys, whom I generally refer to as the guilty parties, generally do not wear black hats, black oily mustaches or other insignia clearly marking them for whom they are. Pity. It's just too darned easy for them to hide their dishonesty and self-serving behaviour while at the same time publicly, figuratively not literally; handing out candy bars and treats. Another example of that is in today's Waterloo Region Record. Now I am not a biologist or for that matter even moderately knowledgeable in the biology of plants, grasses or trees. Nor I expect are the majority of our citizens. Therefore if either Dr. Henry Regier or either of my kids, all of whom have studied biology extensively, wish to enlighten myself and the public regarding today's Record article titled "Five of Ontario's natural habitats to be showcased in new Elmira nature project"; that would be ideal. ............................................................................................................. The article in the Record written by Leah Gerber, certainly to my unknowledgeable eyes, seems to be a good news story. A popular walking area in the south end of Elmira is going to be transformed by local volunteers into five, presumably appropriate natural areas namely Tallgrass prairie, Oak Savanna, Beech maple yellow birch forest, Early successional forest and lastly Wetlands. Again the practicality and long term benefits for doing this are way beyond my knowledge level. You'll just have to read today's Record to see what they say about that. ................................................................................................. So if indeed this is a totally 100% good news story then what am I going to criticize? Well not the spawn of Satan but certainly the spawn of Uniroyal Chemical are involved. Lanxess Canada's involvement is to the tune of a $8,500 donation towards the project. Also I might add that the volunteers from Trees for Woolwich have done some incredibly good works over the years. Unfortunately there may also be one or two who are attempting to wash their environmental sins away. Two of these members were in attendance at the April 9, 2015 alleged "Stakeholder's Meeting" held in the Woolwich Administrative building. Now one of them lied her as. off along with many others including Mark and Sandy and the second Trees for Woolwich member I've always suspected was along as a patsy/pawn and had no idea why the hell they were invited to the meeting. This Trees for Woolwich member had exactly zero history or experience with Uniroyal/Crompton/Chemtura etc. but was needed by Sandy to replace extremely knowledgeable CPAC members who smelled a great big RAT ahead of that private meeting and who were excluded by Sandy from attending. ....................................................................................................... So it seems that even good deeds can and are politicized by guilty parties especially including politicians. Sorry to rain on anybody's parade if in fact this project turns out to be 100% positive, intelligent and environmentally sound. Maybe this is the price groups pay for including rotters in their midst.