As a Mechanical Engineer…

As a Mechanical Engineer here in Ontario who strives to make an impact during my lifetime towards a sustainable, science driven, and informative society, I wholeheartedly disagree with this decision. I work in the Solar industry and have great pride in the work I do because I'm able to contribute towards my goals to help our society develop and integrate itself better with the living world around us.

This type of divestment from a system that has statistics, science, and peoples support in many other countries and even provinces, is a complete let down of a system that I think most Ontarians want to believe in. These types of decisions force people like me; well educated, driven, and forward thinking, to look elsewhere for work as the infrastructure for sustainable and renewable systems is constantly being tore down by short sighted individuals who do not take true ownership of the decisions they are making. These decisions are made seemingly on short sighted budgetary goals of governments that don't seem to understand that the economy is useless unless we have an ecosystem to work under.

I do want to mention that every time a major decision like this is decided on, politicians provide no foundation to which they are making these claims. As an Engineer I look for concrete, statistically significant results, that can afford me the ability to make a proper decision. At this point in time, I don't believe our politicians are making these same type of concrete and understood decisions. Often times (if not in the majority of times) these politicians make "emotional" decisions these cannot be considered rational decisions and ideas.

In any job there is accountability, and before any decision is made there has to be an argument to backup the idea. If a politician can provide me an argument (and any others) that uses base lined numbers and economical studies (with the full study published and understood - not just the parts they want to use to their advantage) I will gladly accept those facts and be happy with it. But as it stands we have a childish government, that is not willing to provide any accountability and arguments to make decisions. Decisions that I quite frankly don't believe they are qualified to make.

I challenge our government to provide more facts, less emotion, and real, quantifiable reasons for decision making. Only once this is done, will engineers like me stay in this province and trust the government to better represent us.