[All] ARA review

[Neil E Taylor]

Dear Mr. Milloy,

 

I am most disappointed in you and your government.a government that is fast
losing the confidence of many of us who have supported you for years.

 

Last week, MPP Laurie Scott asked in the Legislature to extend the public
consultation for the review of the Aggregate Resources Act, and to allow the
committee to travel to several aggregate producing areas of the province to
visit sites and seek public input.

 

Liberal House Leader John Milloy told Ms. Scott that the Conservatives
"can't have it both ways" - that they want the review committee to be
independent of the legislature, and to conduct the review in the manner they
see fit, but that they want the government to mandate an extension and
travel to several locations to gather input.

 

Later in the week, the review committee UNANIMOUSLY passed a motion to
request an extension of the public input process, and to add a travel
program. Now, just one day before the public input period is set to expire,
there has been no response from the house.

 

By omission and inaction, the legislature, led by the Liberal party, is
effectively interfering in the process, by not approving the committee's
request.

 

Both BridgeKeepers and the Conestogo Winterbourne Residents' Association
requested delegation status before the committee in Toronto. They were both
denied. 

 

Mr. Milloy, you can't "have it both ways".  Either you allow the committee
to proceed as it wishes, or undemocratically impose the will of the
government on what is purported to be a process independent of politics.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Neil E. Taylor

 

 

 

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"If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come." - Chinese
Proverb

You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush" -
John Burroughs (1908) essay: Art of Seeing Things

For Nature! For now! Forever!

 

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Neil E. Taylor

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Kitchener ON 

N2C 1J2

Tel. 519-893-6469

 

 

"In the end, we conserve only what we love, we will love only what we
understand and we will understand only what we are taught." -- Baba Dioum

"I have a room all to myself; it is Nature. It is a place beyond the
jurisdiction of human government." - (Author unknown)

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)

"The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration." -
Claude Monet

 

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Life Member - Ontario Nature (ON)

Life Member - Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO)

Honorary Life Member - (2008) Kitchener-Waterloo Field Naturalists (KWFN)

Conservation Award - (2008) Kitchener-Waterloo Field Naturalists (KWFN)

 

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