Today is a bit of a history (recent) lesson. Back in 2016 under the guidance of Dr. Richard Jackson, Chair of TAG (Technical Advisory Group), yet another approach was made to the Federal (Canadian) government for help in cleaning up the Canagagigue Creek . There were two articles in the Waterloo Region Record of major interest namely on May 2/16 titled "Town pushes feds on creek water" by Paige Desmond and a Record Editorial on May 4/16 titled "Toxic time bomb must be defused". Interestingly just half a month earlier there was a Letter To The Editor in the Woolwich Observer from Dr. Dan Holt titled "Standing up for the environment shouldn't invite council's (Woolwich) disdain". ...................................................................... Also of interest to me is that it was Woolwich councillor Murray Martin along with Mayor Sandy Shantz who behaved the worst towards Dr. Holt and myself in our attempts to speak to Woolwich Council about Chemtura Canada (formerly Uniroyal Chemical). Meanwhile Ms. Shantz half a month later went on the Record regarding federal help by saying "I don't think that you should make a small municipality take care of a problem that is bigger than itself." Politicians don't you just love them? .................................................................. So where are we today? Absolutely nowhere. Our Canadian federal government did not step up. They did nothing! The cleanup is still in the hands of the corporate successors to Uniroyal Chemical (Lanxess Canada) and they have almost sold their self-serving, assumption riddled, error filled Risk Assessment to all the alleged "stakeholders" even the five minute wonder ones. Once again when all was said and done, more was said than was done.
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