TOXIC LEVELS OF DIOXIN (AGENT ORANGE) HAVE EXISTED IN ELMIRA AND DOWNSTREAM CANAGAGIGUE CREEK FOR AT LEAST SIXTY YEARS

Exactly how do our governments, mandated to protect citizens, get away with such negilgence? Why are protesters blocking roads and bridges in Ottawa and Windsor, not doing the same here in Waterloo Region? Uniroyal Chemical has literally gotten away with murder/manslaughter. How many Elmira and downstream residents have been sickened (cancer & more) and died from intentional discharges of toxic chemicals in the last sixty years plus? Note I said intentional discharges, not necessarily illegal discharges as our governments were actually complicit in this mass poisoning whether by selective enforcement of laws, non-enforcement or of very careful loopholes in those lasw allegedly protecting citizens. .......................................................................................................................... At one time dioxins were considered a non-threshold chemical in that any amount or concentration was toxic to life and health. Somehow that appears to have changed as now there are criteria in drinking water, creek sediments, soils and as well in tissues of fish and wildlife. In a sense these criteria have legally permitted discharges of these toxins, at least up to the level/concentration of the mandated criteria. Now we get the bullsh.t that allegedly dioxins are legal as long as they don't exceed so many "excess" cancers or deaths per million of exposed population. Such unadulterated crap! ................................................................................................................. Dioxins can induce or exacerbate chloracne, diabetes, cancer, reproductive problems, birth defects, immune disorders, death and on and on. The legacy of multi-generations of civilians in Vietnam still sufferring from American military spraying of Agent Orange, produced in Elmira, Ontario as well as in many other North American factories, is undisputed. Agent Orange contains the impurity 2,3,7,8 TCDD (Tetrachlorodibenzo.p.dioxin) . This is the same impurity buried in the Love Canal by Hooker Chemical back in the 1950s and 60s. Hooker Chemical by the way supplied Uniroyal Chemical in Elmira with 2,4,5-T (trichlorophenol) which contained the impurity 2,3,7,8 TCDD. When 2,4,5-T was combined with 2,4-D, lo and behold Agent Orange was produced. ..................................................................................................... Just to be clear, government complicity and negligence far surpasses anything mentioned to date. Provincial governments in Canada had Agent Orange spraying programs to thin out "inferior" tree species in order to promote growth and harvesting of the more economical trees. Hydro right of ways were also sprayed with Agent Orange in Ontario and elsewhere to inhibit underbrush growth. Finally here in southern Ontario our highway ditches were also sprayed with Agent Orange in the 1960s and 70s for the same purpose. Some municipalities used it as well to limit underbrush along roads and hydro lines. So why are Canadians surprised that cancer rates are over 40% in adult populations? It is government propaganda that cancer rates are so high due to greater diagnosis etc. Our own governments, in their infinite stupidity, have assisted in poisoning our air, water and soils at the same time as they limit mandated cleanups around particularly high industrial sources of dioxins and so much more.