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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Unfortunately and shockingly they’re saying on the CBC news this morning that Doug Ford will be cutting the Office of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario -I’m not sure if this means cutting the whole position or funding/resources to it. This is not right- the ECO is a non-partisan watchdog which has been in existence for quite a long time, through many elections and parties, is very important to the health and well-being of all Ontarions, and they’re won’t be this oversight of what is going on in the province. One person should be allowed to just get rid of it because they don’t believe in environmental concerns. This is part of some new “Paper for the People” or some such document the Conservatives are about to release. Ford is also going after Trudeau’s job to become Prime Minister in less than a year. Perhaps GREN can speak up against this action -I assume many other environmental organizations will be upset about this also.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lori S.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> All <all-bounces@gren.ca> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lanteigne<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 14, 2018 5:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> GREN > <all@gren.ca><br><b>Subject:</b> [All] ECO report and Hidden Valley<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi folks<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Diane Saxe, the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario has just released their annual report yesterday. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In a nutshell: <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It speaks of sewage overflows in Ontario. Of 1,327 events, 766 of them originated from 57 outdated systems that <span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>combine sewage with storm runoff resulting in discharge of raw sewage into Ontario waterways. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>It speaks of the shortfalls of the Source Water protection and how it fails to have regard for sewage runoff, agriculture activities and farm runoff, industrial runoff, road salts. The laws for industrial toxins is 25 years old and in need of update. We lack policy to address many of these risks. Right now the funding for the existing Source Water protection program is uncertain with this current government. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It speaks of the decline of Wetlands in Ontario. We've already lost 72% of them up to 2002 and we lost an additional 0.6% from 2000-2010 and current laws are failing to protect because the government has not assessed many of them. At this rate it would take 260 years to assess wetlands for Provincially Significant Wetland status in Southern Ontario alone yet we know of all wetlands assessed on average 61% are declared PSW's. The Environmental Commissioner stated all wetlands in Ontario should have PSW status until proven otherwise. It is highly complex to replace the function of a wetland. You can't just replace small wetlands with a larger wetland complex. Offsetting should be viewed as a small component of a much broader plan to protect remaining wetlands not the solution to halt the net loss of wetlands. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The Environmental Commissioner created mapping of forest covers in watershed in Southern Ontario and the totality of the Grand River Watershed was EXCLUDED because there is <b>no data available</b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So in light of the Environmental Commissioner's report I would say strongly that<b> no function for land use of any kind should be determined for Hidden Valley due to the absence of Provincial data.</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>To view the Environmental Commissioner's latest report is broken up to several online booklets. You can view them by visiting here: <a href="https://eco.on.ca/reports/2018-back-to-basics/" target="_blank">2018 Back to Basics | Environmental Commissioner of Ontario</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The forestry mapping that lacks data on the Grand River Watershed's tree coverage is on page 52 Back to Basics Southern Ontario's Wetlands and Forests. (the light green book among the reports issued.) <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="ydpe5cde6ddenhancr_card_2274066506"><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='max-width:300.0pt'><tr><td width=400 style='width:300.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='max-width:300.0pt;border:solid #E0E4E9 1.0pt'><tr style='height:131.25pt'><td valign=top style='border:none;background:black;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:131.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:rect id="_x0000_s1026" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:297pt;height:131.25pt;z-index:251657216' fillcolor="black" stroked="f">
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