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This is the stupidest most careless most destructive piece of proposed legislation I've seen in quite some time -- and I'm 70 years old. To allow changes of this nature will merely pander to an already wealthy elite (such as developers) at the expense of the rest of us -- and even more importantly of the environment, which in effect means our children and theirs.· Here's a just a few of things at risk:
Clean drinking water. Letting corporations bypass the Clean Water Act means they have free reign to pollute our drinking water sources, putting real lives in danger— like in Walkerton Ontario, where seven people died from E. coli poisoning after similar water regulations were slashed by Mike Harris.
Ontario’s Greenbelt, 2 million acres of protected land that grows our food and provides critical habitat for wildlife, could be sold off in pieces.
The Great Lakes, housing one fifth of the world’s freshwater, would be threatened with harmful pollutants, toxic chemicals, and greater wetlands loss, making them less drinkable, swimmable, and fishable.
We need this government to think bigger, with respect and responsibility.