IS COLLUSION and DECEIT BY OUR AUTHORITIES EVER JUSTIFIED?

I expect that one could come up with a set of circumstances in which blatant lying to the public by our politicians might actually be viewed as the best of a number of very poor options. For example if they learned a mere month or so ahead of time that a massive earth shattering asteroid was on course for a direct hit that would most likely wipe out both the earth and humanity, would a month of world wide panic and fear help anyone or anything? Undoubtedly other less dramatic scenarios might also justify blatant lying and deceit towards the rest of humanity. ...................................................................................................... Notice the use of the word "might" in the previous sentence. How about the residential school crisis that occurred here in Canada? How about the 60s "scoop"? And on and on as governments have come up with incredibly harmful actions towards large groups of Canadians and then decided that it was in everyone's best interests to cover it all up. Deny, deny and deny. How about the large numbers of Catholic pedophiles who just like bad teachers were subject to "Pass the Trash" policies. Both teachers and priests, instead of being disciplined or charged, were transferred to other schools and or parishes. How much of that was done to protect the privacy and mental health of the victims versus to protect the institutions reputation be they schools or churches? .............................................................................................................. That is the rub in all of this. Maybe there are occasions when more good is achieved through silence and secrecy than through honesty and transparency. The question is who gets to make those decisions. It should never be the guilty parties be they provincial or federal governments or schools, churches or hospitals. NEVER! Here in Elmira, Ontario all our municipal, regional and provincial bodies and others have decided that covering up the extent of environmental, human health and wildlife damage is the way to go. The problem is that all three of those levels of government are culpable in the Elmira Crisis. They enabled and protected Uniroyal Chemical from 1942 until the present (Lanxess) in order to maintain employment, local businesses, real estate markets etc. They did this also to protect their own reputations after they grossly failed to protect us from chemical contamination of the air, water and soils in Elmira and the downstream length of the Canagagigue Creek. This coverup included shielding not just Uniroyal Chemical but also Nutrite, Varnicolor Chemical and other local polluters from prosecution. It included refusing health studies that could have detected cancers in the population much earlier. It included denying the length of time that they knew that NDMA and solvents were in our drinking water aquifers and drinking wells. It has been both a massive health and environmental coverup and all done to reduce their own culpability and cowardice in not confronting Uniroyal Chemical long before 1989 or the 1980's in general. That coverup continues to this day in order to protect their own reputations and legacies all at the ongoing expense of the people and environment.