<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 6/16/11, Louisette Lanteigne <i><butterflybluelu@rogers.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><br>Subject: Highland Quarry: Article published highlights risks to Waterloo Region<br>To: stephen.harper@parl.gc.ca, peter.mackay@parl.gc.ca, vic.toews@parl.gc.ca, jim.flaherty@parl.gc.ca, gerry.ritz@parl.gc.ca, peter.kent@parl.gc.ca, gail.shea@parl.gc.ca, Joe.Oliver@parl.gc.ca, diane.ablonczy@parl.gc.ca, jack.layton@parl.gc.ca, francis.scarpaleggia@parl.gc.ca, stephane.dion@parl.gc.ca, peter.braid@parl.gc.ca<br>Cc: jwilkinson.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, ljeffrey.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, dduncan.mpp@liberal.ola.org, cmitchell.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, rbartolucci.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org,
dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, toby.barrett@pc.ola.org, hhampton-qp@ndp.on.ca, ernie.hardeman@pc.ola.org, ahorwath-co@ndp.on.ca, jerry.ouellette@pc.ola.org, mprue-qp@ndp.on.ca, joyce.savoline@pc.ola.org, tabunsp-qp@ndp.on.ca<br>Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 4:41 PM<br><br><div id="yiv369667370"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Dear Hon. Prime Minster and ministers</div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><br></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><span class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><div>Please review the following article showing how the proposed Highland Quarry could have adverse impacts to Waterloo Region.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;line-height:16px;"><a rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" href="http://waterloo.openfile.ca/waterloo/file/2011/06/melancthon-quarry-could-impact-waterloo-region" style="line-height:1.2em;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0, 51, 153);outline-style:none;
outline-color:initial;">http://waterloo.openfile.ca/waterloo/file/2011/06/melancthon-quarry-could-impact-waterloo-region</a></span></div><div><br></div></span></div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The Grand River Conservation Authority published previously that the Grand River supports the same gross national revenue as the province of Nova Scotia.</div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><br></div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Waterloo Region is home to the second largest food belt in Ontario and it is a leading community for technology development in Canada. </div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><br></div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Lake Erie's water volumes have dropped over the years to the point ships must split loads up or vessels risk running aground. Increased costs to shipping through the great lakes can have adverse impacts on manufacturing
sectors and trade. We need to protect the flow an flow rates heading to Lake Erie.</div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><br></div><div><font class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">The Highland quarry, urban sprawl and quarry pits over top primary recharge areas must be addressed at the federal level. Provincial ministries lack the funds and staff to establish this. We need federal source water protection legislation in order to adequately assess cross jurisdictional and federal economic risks associated with projects like this and we need to place a monetary value on the function of aggregate systems for the water resources they provide before we destroy these systems. </font></div><div><font class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">The federal government promised a National Water Strategy in the
throne speech in
2007.</font></div><div><font class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">How much funding has been allocated to establish this? </font></div><div><font class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">What have we accomplished towards this objective to date? </font></div><div><span class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;"><br></span></div><div><font class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">What is the scheduling for the strategy? </font></div><div><font class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">I would like a written response to address these concerns. </font></div><div><font
class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="yiv369667370Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Thank you kindly for your time.</font></div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><br></div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Louisette Lanteigne</div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">700 Star Flower Ave.</div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Waterloo Ontario<br>N2V 2L2</div><blockquote style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>