Dunlop: McGuinty Liberals Hatred of Rural Ontario Families Continues

Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop to-day questioned the decision by the McGuinty Liberals to issue a draft design approval to the County of Simcoe for the proposed Site 41 landfill. The draft design approval was issued on Monday, July 10, shortly after the provincial legislature adjourned for the summer recess.

“In light of the fact that the McGuinty Liberals will be holding committee hearings this summer on the Ontario Clean Water Act and will be asking the agricultural community to abide by expensive and intrusive new guidelines, I find it unbelievable that the McGuinty Liberals would proceed to the last stage of placing a landfill on top of one of the most pristine aquifers in the world”, said Dunlop. “Clearly, Dalton McGuinty has learned nothing from Walkerton or he would have listened to the citizens of North Simcoe who do not want a landfill placed within 4 KM of the municipal water systems of Elmvale and Wyevale.”

Despite the fact that the government has received thousands of anti-land fill signatures on petitions, hundreds of letters of protests, a request to the Environmental Commission of Ontario to review the application, and has a Private Members Bill 39 (An Act to Prevent the Disposal of Waste at Site 41 in the Township of Tiny) before the House, the McGuinty Liberals have ignored everyone and are proceeding in a direction that does not guarantee that the new landfill will not contaminate the water source.

“It was easy for McGuinty to reverse the approval application for the Adams Mine Landfill when Liberal MPP and Cabinet Minister David Ramsay threatened to resign his seat, but he is set to proceed with a “dinosaur” landfill at Site 41 in a riding held by a Tory,” added Dunlop. “This Premier should be ashamed of himself for his partisan action and for his hatred of rural Ontario families.”

Dunlop also pointed out that the announcement came when the house was in recess and McGuinty cannot be questioned on his promise to help protect Ontario’s prime farmland and water sources.

Contact:
Garfield Dunlop
(705) 327-4500 (cell)