[All] Gren News March 9 2022

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Hi folks
I've been super busy up to the eyeballs this last year and currently seeing major results in work done to expose the corruption links of Canada's pipelines to Russia (which I filed complaints about ages ago.) That issue is keeping me very busy these days but now but I just want to first take a moment to focus on the eco news happening locally. 

LOCAL NEWS

March 10th online meeting to help stop the Hallman Quarry Pit 

March 10th online meeting is taking place regarding the Hallman Quarry Pit Project. The application is being brought forward by Jackson Harvest Farm Ltd. for this open pit quarry in Shingletown. Wilmot Council may make a decision on it as early as this spring. Join the zoom meeting happening Thursday March 10th at 7pm online and if you wish to participate please per-register here: https://www.safeh2o.ca/march10th?recruiter_id=110

The petition to say no to the project is online here. Please sign here: 

PETITION

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March 11 Deadline for ROPP re: Transit & Employment Areas. 

The Public input is being asked to give comment on Draft Major Transit Station Area and Regional Employment Areas Policies. Visit here, scroll down and you can participate in the public feedback. https://www.engagewr.ca/regional-official-plan?tool=survey_tool#tool_tab  
The issue I have is this is all based on a Places to Grow Act that had no regard for water budget or carrying capacity of our local water supplies. It was a plan designed before climate change risks were understood at an age we didn't have the technology to even understand our own water budget. The city council in Cambridge already declared a Climate Crisis. As the Province pushes us to expand we need to ask, where is this storm runoff going and what are the downstream consequences?  So much of what we know about the Grand River is based on per-development reports without regard for post development impacts and the need is there to have a reasonable baseline to work with but with the Ford Government, so many projects are being rushed through without proper EAs and without proper consultations, it is uncertain what the risks are or could be. 

The Haudenoshone have publicly announced they want to see a stop to development along the Haldimand tract along the Grand River and I support it for the simple reason that until we can reasonably understand what our current risks are, we cannot predict what the consequences of this accelerated growth will be. Their media release is here: 

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/haudenosaunee-chiefs-declare-development-moratorium-across-entire-haldimand-tract/
We are on Treaty Lands and as such that is already outside of Provincial Jurisdictional legislation. Treaties are FEDERAL jurisdictional lands not Provincial. We acknowledge the Treaties and yet to this day we're still not complying with the international laws they are bound to. As an Acadian who is bound still to my lawful nationhood rights including the Treaty of Utrecht, I don't see it a reasonable thing for us to endorse a Provincial Places to Grow Act on Treaty Lands. Ontario may be in violation of UNDRIP. The British North America Act violated the Treaty of Utrecht when it outlined it's criteria to serve the Provinces and British Empire Interests, not the interests of Federal Jurisdictional People which includes First Nations and unceded nations like Acadia. By way of Treaty of Utrecht we secured a vehicle by which the British were to have regard for us as equal to British Citizens. They ignored it and that's why the deportation of the Acadians was illegal. The Queen signed off on it here. The Acadian Museum News and Events - The Queen’s Apology

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That apology was in preparation for the compliance of a 400 year old agreement for the decolonization of Canada that was to take place in 2010 which Stephen Harper ignored. Instead of giving land back to break the contractual agreements with the City of London and Westminster entities he doubled down on recolonization of Canada with nations like Libya, China and Russia. That's the issue I am working on outside of GREN.  London entities were co-opted by Russian Interests and currently China is buying up all the Russian assets cheap while the world proceeds to sanction Russian operations due to the water in Ukraine. This article notes: China has doubled purchases of Russian energy products to nearly $60 billion over the last five years.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-08/china-considers-buying-stakes-in-russian-energy-commodity-firms
Ford is linked to Russian Interests at this time. His lawyer is Gavin Tighe, the solicitor for KGB's Boris Birshtein who's son in law Alex Schnaider, was the partner of Trump Tower in Toronto. Read about them in the book Putin's People on page 470 you will see how their investment schemes worked. It is the same pattern I saw with all the pipelines approved by Stephen Harper. Upon approval grant monies flow in and move offshore and they make their money without needing to successfully build anything.  

Ontario's former Finance Minister Rod Philips worked for OLG and Post Media and works with Princess Beatrice at Afiniti in AI tech which in my view, is more rooted to insider info than anything else.  The Scottish Rite was literally purchased by Russia and the old boys clubs were compromised with approvals being rubber stamped linked to the issues of corruption. The Russian mob flourished due to Canada's weak tax laws. The funding of various issues including SNC Lavalin links to Libya and Bronfmans and Bronfman's built Brookfield who is linked to Qatar. Jeffrey Epstein's money sits at the TD bank in a tower that the Bronfman's built and yes he is interwoven with the mess and with Leon Black his biggest client. Leon Black worked with Apollo who bought the Great Canadian Casinos from Rod Baker and his dad Neil Baker the former accountant for Bronfmans who found the loophole at Gordon Securities that allowed foreign ownership schemes in Canada. Enbridge links to Russia via Ecopatrol who worked with Rostneft in Colombia and they likely were the firm who filed the boat with the Bunker Fuel that is now being diverted from the Irving's refinery thanks to Russian sanctions.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/two-oil-tankers-owned-by-russian-company-rerouting-from-canada
Enbridge and TC Energy (formerly Trans Canada) had Avraz as their steel pipe supplier and that firm is owned by Russian Mobster Roman Abramovich. 

I've been blowing the whistle on the Russian Mob links for about 10 years now so it's nice to finally see that people are acting on it now. 

Getting back to the Places to Grow Act....We need the Places to Grow Act reviewed by the FEDERAL government not simply the Province. The totality of this plan should be subject to a FEDERAL EA not simply Provincial or local planning measures because the Grand River watershed includes 39 municipalities and two First Nations territories being Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. It impacts Lake Erie that is shared with the US. The watershed data is here. https://www.grandriver.ca/en/our-watershed/Our-Watershed.aspx

To rely on an outdated Places to Grow policy that had no regard for UNDRIP or Climate Change is reckless. Until the corruption issues are resolved, until the land issues with First Nations is settled we need to stop this sprawl. Our water supplies are worth protecting for the long term and it's at serious risk with the rush of greed linked to international crimes happening in our own region. I still have documents of the land banking schemes that took place between Germany to Waterloo Region and Germany's finances are linked to China's. https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-china-economy-business-technology-industry-trade-security/ and the money of the mob flowed through Germany to Canada likely through N'drangeta in the Toronto area. The were banking on Colonization-Wealth, Power and Politics as noted in this report:  
 https://www.cicc-iccc.org/public/media/files/prod/banque_fichiers_events/511/ASergi_SeminarMontreal_5April2017.pdf
We need to clean up Queen's Park and put in place a government who has regard for Rule of Law. 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-government-court-cases-lost-doug-ford-1.6168318
What can we do when the Premier is a risk? 

My advice, go Federal. If that fails appeal to Westminster Gov. in the UK.  Knowing local, Provincial and Federal laws is great but GREN and other advocacy groups in Canada need to learn how to raise concerns with the higher levels of International law because we are Common wealth citizens. Appealing to the UN or to Westminster is a reasonable thing to do because their Infrastructure Advisors and their Treasury and Crown influence Canadian decisions. Canada still serves British Empire in the current version of the BNA Act so appeal to them directly. We have that right. 

I know it's a great deal to take in but honestly, the corruption was there for a very long time and many people know of it and feel overwhelmed by the scale but there are so many hard working good people doing the right thing to help undo the mess. 

We have the right President, we have the right people at the Federal level in Canada who know how these plutocrats worked and we are making very fast progress on all these issues, especially by cutting off their money. The rush to destroy is because they know their days are numbered. So have faith and keep on keeping on. 


Guelph Mayor wants Highway 7 Expanded 

The Mayor of Guelph was published on March 7th 2022 asking for Highway 7 to be widened. In 2020, the province announced it was moving forward with plans to construct an 18-kilometre, four-lane highway with seven interchanges connecting the Hanlon Expressway with Highway 7 in Kitchener, including new bridges over the Grand River. Plans for it go back to the 1960. (Pre-climate change, Pre LRT etc.) Phase three includes upgrades to the Hanlon Expressway and Highway 7 intersection and two species at risk habitat replacements “anticipated as early as 2022,” along with Guelph Junction Railway modifications “anticipated as early (as) 2023. Here is the article about it. 

Mayor renews call for new Highway 7 to be a provincial priority

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Mayor renews call for new Highway 7 to be a provincial priority

Confirmed moving forward in November, Minister of Transportation now proposes incremental advancement
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My view, seeing that this is an expensive project with many ecological constraints it should be subject to a Federal EA process, not simply Provincial or local approval. I would like GREN to submit that as a comment to the Mayor of Guelph if possible. If folks wish to have a say you can send the email for Guelph's Mayor at mayor at guelph.ca

Guelph to Grand River Transit Links UPDATE
Waterloo region has joined a provincial transit study with the local goal of improving inter-regional bus transit between Guelph and Kitchener in advance of two-way all day GO train service coming to the Kitchener line. The Metrolinx-funded study has a goal to improve travel options between cities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe and is starting by adding a co-fare payment system for GO train users so that any bus transfers to or from a GO train will be paid entirely by Metrolinx as of March 14th. If you use Go Train or Bus to get to Waterloo Region the transfer is free. This doesn't apply to the TTC in Toronto but it does apply to several communities en route including Guelph. Good to see.
CELA recommends changes to Bill S-5: An Act to Amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999.
Among the CELA proposed amendments to Bill S-5 include:
   
   - An enforceable remedy for the right to a healthy environment proposed by Bill S-5, which otherwise lacks a remedy;
   - Turning the discretionary Ministerial power to require companies to adopt pollution prevention plans, which has only been exercised by the Minister for one-sixth of the 150 toxic substances covered by CEPA over the last two decades, into a mandatory obligation to do so that would result in coverage of all such substances in the next few years and also enshrine the examination of alternatives with respect to such substances as a central pillar of federal environmental law;
   - Imposing mandatory testing obligations on industry where available information is lacking to help determine whether a substance is toxic, or capable of becoming toxic, in the context of such issues as endocrine-disrupting substances, cumulative effects, and impacts on vulnerable populations;
   - Establishing authority for enforceable ambient air quality standards to address nationally problematic substances like lead; and
   - Retaining but improving existing authority in CEPA that Bill S-5 would remove on such issues as:      
      - virtual elimination of toxic substances;
      - geographic targeting of regulatory authority; and
      - identifying substances as “toxic”.

For those who wish to view the totality of their recommendations the link is here: 
https://cela.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CELA-Proposed-Amendments-to-Bill-S-5-CEPA_03Mar22.pdf

HOW TO HELP: Send an email to Minister of Environment & Climate Change Steven Guilbeault & Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos today, asking them to add CELA's recommended amendments to Bill S-5 before the Bill goes to Committee. Steven.Guilbeault at parl.gc.caJean-Yves.Duclos@parl.gc.ca

That's it for now folks. Spring is right around the corner! 

Enjoy the day. 

Lulu :0) 

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