Cover from whom? Let's see : The Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP). Truth be told the old MOE have changed their stupid name just about as much as Uniroyal Chemical now Lanxess. Also decades long, still ongoing cover from Woolwich Township. The Region of Waterloo aren't perhaps as obvious but they too have given support at times to the status quo while refraining from loudly criticizing Lanxess, MECP, GHD as they should. The federal government have given support as much by omission as by commission. Where are they? Nowhere in sight despite there being federal issues involved with war material (Agent Orange) manufactured here in Elmira now gracing the soils and sediments of five miles of downstream Canagagigue Creek which discharges into our Heritage River (the Grand) which discharges into Lake Erie.
I can not readily believe that Woolwich Township senior staff or councillors appreciate terminology used by myself and on rare occasions by others such as "professional liars", "guilty parties", "fellow travellors", "client driven" etc. I also doubt that Lanxess Canada and their consultants GHD truly enjoy their name being dragged through the mud. While shareholder profits may trump good press and public relations nevertheless my opinion is that corporations usually prefer to have both. Regarding the MECP I have often referred to them as plainly "corrupt". That should sting but I guess when you are a provincial Ministry whose real mandate is the APPEARANCE of controlling pollution versus actually doing so, than harsh words come with the territory.
As always it is the citizens who pay the price of corrupt and incompetent governments. It is also the citizens who elect them in the first place. Throwing the bums out each and every election might at least slow down the audacity and arrogance of the corruption once every party and individual understood that they were generally held in contempt by the majority of voters.
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