MORAL TURPITUDE OF OUR GOVERNMENTS & SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORITIES ON DISPLAY

Today's Waterloo Region Record carries an article written by Leah Gerber titled "Challenge to environment act changes reaches court this week". Various groups involved in legal action against the Doug Ford, Conservative Ontario government include Wilderness Committee, Greenpeace, Ontario Nature, Earthroots and Ecojustice. This article relates the various negative changes to environmental protection that Doug Ford and company have been pushing the last couple of years. This is hardly surprising for a Progressive Conservative government deeply beholden to big business and big money. Bill 197 is the focus of the court action this week as it was enacted without any public consultation and it makes large changes to the Environmental Assessment Act and the Planning Act among others. Also there are certain environmental protection guarantees within the Environmental Bill of Rights and as well within the Environmental Registry of Ontario that these various environmental groups claim have been ignored, arbitrarily amended or broken. .................................................................................................................................... None of this is terribly surprising to yours truly. How can it be when I have been writing here for eleven years now about the disgraceful, immoral. unethical and dishonest actions of the Ontario Ministry of Environment whether they call themselves the MOE, MOEE or MECP. A piece of manure by any other name smells just as rotten. Whether we are talking about mercury in the English-Wabigoon river system, Trichloroethylene from Northstar Aerospace in Cambridge or NDMA, DDT, chlorobenzene and dioxins in Elmira the one constant is the corrupt Ontario Ministry of Environment. This corruption clearly includes whatever party currently are forming the government, Conservative or Liberal.