WHY WASTE A PERFECTLY GOOD CRISIS?

Dougie Ford and accompaning syncophants certainly have not wasted the world wide Covid-19 crisis. Under cover of deaths, illnesses and Intensive Care Units (ICU) being overwhelmed, he has systematically begun the Progressive Conservative assault upon the Ontario environment. Ministerial Zoning Orders (MZO) are our developers dreams come true. Bypassing little inconveniences such as Environmental Assessments (EA) and the former Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) now known as LPATs (Local Planning Area Tribunal), a provincial Minister on their own can order the go ahead for certain construction and development projects. Allegedly the province would like the support of local municipal councils but hey most of them are incredibly politicized and right wing anyways and this somewhat allows them to duck accountability and issues that an EA or LPAT hearing might expose to serious scrutiny. We can't have too little of that is the motto of far too many municipalities not to mention higher tier governments. ............................................................................................................. Gravel pits, wetlands, groundwater protection rules are all up to be circumvented and will be. Short term thinking and grabbing profits now have led the entire world to where it is today. Of course that has required bought and paid for law makers to suport and protect the small minority making millions of dollars for personal use. These same exploiters and destroyers of the earth funnel money whether legally or illegally back to the very same lawmakers, their families and or their companies. ........................................................................................................................... Covid-19 is ideal for these miserable excuses for human beings. Prior to it crises simply were too short term and too unreliable except climate change and a few others. As a result often politicians were forced into inventing crises. These could include foreign terrorism/domestic terrorism (especially in the U.S.), the Cold War, the war on drugs, communism, the radical left etc. etc.. .................................................................................................. Locally Woolwich Township politicians (i.e. two of them) invented the CPAC (Chemtura Public Advisory Committee) crisis in early 2015. Allegedly Chemtura and the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE/MECP) were emotionally devastated by the verbal assaults of mostly senior citizens appointed to CPAC by the former Woolwich Council. Yes there were some younger (40-60) year old members with both PHd. degrees and professional expertise in the environmental field. Not exactly a bunch of wild eyed radicals but hey when you are professional liars by career choice (i.e. politicians) then you use what you have. Current refusals to have any live public meetings likely will be seized upon in the future by these same swine after Covid-19 is nothing but a painful memory.