PAST TIME TO CALL OUT THE SCHIZOPHRENIC REGION OF WATERLOO

First off why am I calling them schizophrenic? Well as per my dictionary it refers to one entity having two personalities. On one hand the Region of Waterloo portray themselves as being very socially conscious with ideas of paying a living wage to all employees including those under private contract to third parties. Or maybe not. They apparently help the poor and homeless in the Region with one hand while simultaneously BULLDOZING a tent encampment this last weekend beside Charles St. Then how about their Police Board again apparently rubber stamping a major increase in the police budget while activists are presenting solid evidence for defunding (i.e. reducing) the budget by giving duties and responsibilities for mental health and various social issues to agencies better trained for them than the police. Lastly in today's Record and last Thursday's Woolwich Observer we have a very good Letter To The Editor from Rory Farnan of Citizens For Safe Groundwater asking how the Region can continue their "marketing campaign" to protect groundwater while simultaneously giving their blessing to another new gravel pit, this one in Wilmot Township near Shingletown. ............................................................................................................. My conclusion is that there are excellent individual employees within the Region of Waterloo but it's the same old fuddy duddy regional councillors elected over and over again who are right wing, ideologically challenged twits actually in charge. It is regional Council who are the problem while hiding behind a few progressive social policies to give them cover for their entrenched way of doing business i.e. money, power and business first, people and the environment second. ................................................................................................................................. ........................................................ ....................................................... ....................................................... PLAUSIBLE DENIABILTY DOES NOT EQUAL DUE DILIGENCE Yahoo / Sent ........................................................ ....................................................... Alan Marshall To: kredman@regionodwaterloo.ca , bvrbanovic@regionofwaterloo.ca , djaworsky@regionofwaterloo.ca , eclarke@regionofwaterloo.ca , hjowett@regionofwaterloo.ca and 8 more... ................................................................ Mon., Nov. 29 at 9:33 a.m. .................................................................. .........................................................Nov. 29/21 .................................................................. ..................NOTICE OF FAILURE (#4) TO RESPOND APPROPRIATELY .............................................................................. .................... Party:...... Region of Waterloo Council .................................................. .................................... Issue:.......July 23, 2021 Pacific Rim Lab report on dioxin/furans in soil ........................................................................ .................. Time:........September 2021 - present ................................................ .............................. Details:.....Ongoing support/protection for Uniroyal Chemical/Lanxess Canada and their inadequate and unsuccessful ............."cleanup" efforts in Elmira, Ontario. ............................................................... ................................... .............................. Regional Council were provided the opportunity to receive this professional seven page lab report showing dioxin contamination east of the Lanxess property in an area disputed for self-serving reasons by Lanxess Canada. This lab report is but one piece of evidence of five showing Uniroyal Chemical specific contamination (DDT, dioxins, NDMA) on the Stroh property which has been provided to both RAC and TAG members. Regional Council refused to receive this lab report from myself. That behaviour is worse than dereliction of duty and lack of due diligence and may cross into blatant corruption. ................................................................... Despite Regional council's and other parties failures to request their own personal copies, this lab report has been on-line in its' entirety for two and half weeks. Again not so much as a request for clarification, discussion or significance of this document. ..................................................................................................................... News flash for regional council.. You may or may not be wedded to our local world class polluters. As per my Elmira Advocate Blog today I suggest that your social and environmental behaviour is schizophrenic. Your job however is to protect the public interest not the interest of multi-national, multi-billion dollar corporations who have externalized their toxic waste disposal costs onto the environment (air, soils, groundwater, surface water), wildlife and both Elmira and Canagagigue downstream residents. ................................................................................................................. Along with this Notice I will be sending each regional council member an electronic copy of the Pacific Rim Lab report. I will also be posting this Notice on my Blog. ..................................................................................................... Alan Marshall CPAC & EH-Team member