[All] Fw: Stop Highway 413 in Ontario. Federally protect food, water and biodiversity in Canada

Fri Aug 21 20:36:46 EDT 2020

 It's been a busy day. 

Lulu 

   ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Lanteigne <water.lulu at yahoo.ca>To: Catherine Fife - CO <cfife-co at ndp.on.ca>; Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <premier at ontario.ca>; chrystia.freeland at parl.gc.ca <chrystia.freeland at parl.gc.ca>; Justin Trudeau <justin.trudeau at parl.gc.ca>; MOE Minister Catherine McKenna <catherine.mckenna at parl.gc.ca>; andrew.scheer at parl.gc.ca <andrew.scheer at parl.gc.ca>; Jagmeet Singh <jagmeet.singh at parl.gc.ca>; Elizabeth May <elizabeth.may at parl.gc.ca>; Andrea Horwath <ahorwath-qp at ndp.on.ca>; John Fraser-CO <jfraser.mpp.co at liberal.ola.org>; mikeschreiner at gpo.ca <mikeschreiner at gpo.ca>; Minister MOECC (MOECC) <minister.moecc at ontario.ca>; NRIC MNR (MNRF) <mnr.nric.mnr at ontario.ca>; minister.mto at ontario.ca <minister.mto at ontario.ca>; Minister (MMAH) <minister.mah at ontario.ca>; pbellegarde at afn.ca <pbellegarde at afn.ca>; Afn Info <info at afn.ca>; Scott Cavan <scott.cavan at coo.org>; UN Anti Corruption <uncac.cop at unodc.org>; vatcn at international.gc.ca <vatcn at international.gc.ca>; United Nations <indigenous_un at un.org>Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020, 8:36:06 p.m. EDTSubject: Stop Highway 413 in Ontario. Federally protect food, water and biodiversity in Canada
 Dear Hon. Prime Minister, Premier and Ministers

 Back in 2018 the Environmental Assessment estimates the GTA West highway 413, will cost 4 to 6 Billion to construct, excluding the expense of land expropriation and ongoing highway maintenance. This was before Covid 19, this was before Waterloo Region declared a Climate Emergency and it doesn't factor in the amount of lost potable water resources, lost of wetlands or the impact of this on tributaries and water supplies, especially in regards to the issue of road salt contamination. Our Region of Waterloo have lost wells to that issue. 

We have 80 Quarry pits currently in Waterloo Region, many of which pose a threat to local water supplies. We are the largest region dependent on groundwater and yet the Aggregate Act is based on pre-development data without any regard for source water protection, Treaty rights, protection of major rivers and tributaries and or the economic consequences of removing aggregates in the wrong place. 

In the attachments I have included photos to illustrate the concern. In a nutshell we're doing bad math. Ontario is the largest user of aggregates with the Ministry of Transportation. The virgin aggregates are priced cheaply so there is not much incentive to really reuse aggregates to the capacity which we could. 

There is no mandate for the Ministry of Natural Resources or the Ministry of Transportation to assess health impacts or loss of A1 farmland or loss of source water areas because those issues are outside the jurisdictional mandate of these MNR and MTO who act as the promoter and regulator and primary purchaser of aggregates. 

There is no fiscal analysis of the losses that could impact the Ontario economy if we extract aggregates in the wrong place and watch dog agencies like the Conservation Authorities have conflicts because they are funded by aggregate sectors. The system is captured and the Conservation Authorities have oversight to address Conflicts of Interest. 

In my view this is design to exploit extraction first and human safety and food and water supplies are deemed issues outside the scope of concern. This is not reasonable. It's an abuse of dominance that is putting the public and our long term water supplies and food supply at risk. 

Canada has existed for over 150 years yet they still don't have federal policies to protect Canadian drinking water supplies or A1 farmland as a federal policy. Stephen Harper promised a Federal Water Act in his first Throne speech and nothing came of it. I don't even know if money was allocated for that. We have policies to extract with no regard for the protection or preservation of human lives or the water and food we all need to survive. 

This is disgusting and this has to change.
I demand that we put the priority of all Ontario Planning in line with the mandate of the PPS to protect our long term food, water and biodiversity as a top priority to protect future generations instead of cursing them with expensive boondoggles like this stupid Highway 413 which nobody wants or needs. 

There is no public demand for this nonsense and the creation of boondoggles to park money into CPPIB mega projects only serves to launder money in shell firms and facilitates the bid rigging, corruption and collusion into things that have caused us nothing but endless misery. All the money for the weapons, the social discord, the pipelines and SNC Lavalin's corruption is being laundered at Intratrust today and it's no secret how that tax evasion works. View page 11 in this report for the details of that. 

https://www.tni.org/files/publication-downloads/issue-brief-arms-trade-web.pdf

This has to stop. The engineers are corrupt and we need governance willing to rise up in defense of the people. 

The simple truth is Canada's population is aging and with that will be the decline of vehicles on the road. I have three kids of driving age. Only one does. The future is all about public transit not driving.  The elderly are going to need that system and the kids won't be able to cover the normal tax base let alone all the boondoggles and the externalized costs of climate change at the same time.  

The chart is in the attachments is from Statistics Canada, 1996 Census of Canada Age and Sex, Cat. No. 95F0186XDB and Statistics Canada, Population Projections for Canada, Provinces and Territories Ca. No. 91-520, online: Health Canada 
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Thanks to years of climate inaction we can expect the population to drop further due to the endocrine disruption issues from of years of climate inaction and associate chemical pollution issues not to mention the societal and psychological disruption brought about by the fear of climate change disaster and Covid 19 and having a pedophile as US President. 

Mr. Ford, Mr. Trudeau, your scaring the hell out of our kids. I'd like that to stop. If Canada is founded on the Supremacy of God, try listening to what he said to Moses in Deuteronomy. I include that in the attachments for your reference. 

Value and protect the life supports. Don't destroy them. 

Yours sincerely,

Louisette Lanteigne700 Star Flower Ave. 
Waterloo ONN2V 2L2 
519-885-7610

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