Not coincidentally the title of this posting is identical to the one in the K-W Record's Letters To The Editor today. That Letter is written by John Waylett on behalf of the Property Taxpayers Alliance. While Mr. Waylett takes umbrage with MPP Aislinn Clancy's recent article criticizing Premier Doug Ford's environmental missteps, I feel that there is room to agree with both of them. Yes Doug and the provincial Conservative government have behaved towards the environment exactly as is to be expected by a Conservative government. In other words badly.
At the same time clearly our regional government have been leading us down the garden path for many decades as they blithely swallowed the Federal and Provincial Growth mantra without conditions or proper preparation. Did we learn nothing from the 30,000-40,000 influx of Indian students attending Conestoga College? The Region did not have enough housing, jobs, food banks, healthcare, sewage treatment or drinking water facilities to keep up to the demand.
Mr. Waylett is also correct in that the Region need to disclose to taxpayers how we got into this latest crisis involving water supply. Remember this is after the influx of students has been dramatically reduced. Does anyone really believe the Grand River, as a depository of our many sewage treatment plants, is ever going to be the same after we hit 1,000,000 people living and working here? I for one do not.
My last point is this. Ultimately regional senior planners and water managers will do as they are told by a multitude of uneducated and woefully ignorant "professional" politicians. The word "professional" does not refer to their academic or technical qualifications it refers to their abilities to fib, gild the lily and weasel out of accountability and responsibility. When in trouble they will hire more credentialed staff (to hide behind and ignore) and form more committees (citizens' preferably) to insulate themselves from crises and blame of their own making.
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