Having worked with KCCA and…

Having worked with KCCA and CCCA as a SS teacher for 30 years and as an environmentalist for the passed 16 years as a retiree,(Elgin Stewardship Council, Ontario Envirothon, Canadian Chestnut Council),I see no benefit to the proposed alamagamation to these gigantic CAs. The loss of local autonomy of our CAs to build long term programs and services and Environmental Awareness suited to the immediate area and community will have a negative impact on our region. The amalgamation of school boards and some municipalities in the past have not saved any money or streamlined or improved services as the government promised. The smaller entities are swallowed up and short chanced by the larger to the detriment of the peripheral areas. The current situation of the TVDSB is a prime example of the failure of passed amalgamations. The Grand, Thames and St. Claire CAs will dominate. The communities served by KCCA and CCCA will still have to pay their levees but have no or token input and control in the Lake Erie Region. We will lose the ability to work with our local CA staffs who live and work with in the community and who know the specifics of our local watersheds. The KCCA and CCCA have provided good local services and local programs unique to our communities which will be loss by this alamagamation.
I hope that this government will reconsider and not implement this alamagamation and the creation of another costly and distant bureaucratic layer.