Nobleton Clear

My sympathy goes to the Le Blanc Family as Romeo Le Blanc has passed away. He served Canada as a dedicated servant always focusing on what is best for all Canadians. His leadership and understanding will be missed.

The Conservatives have been putting the treatment of my cancer and the treatment thousands of other Canadians at risk for the last 30 months. First they fired the head of the safety watch dog commission on safety who said all was not right at Chalk River. then the Conservatives said fire up the old reactor with out fixing it.
Next they cancelled the funding for Maple Leaf 1 and Maple Leaf 2 reactors that were being built to replace the old reactor. One of which these is ready to fire up.
You have Teneycke saying they could not get another reatcor one on line but people a t AECL say they have one of the Maple Leaf reactors that could be brought into service.
Why put so many Canadian lives at risk?? The current government is callous and arrogant.

We invest $10 billion of my tax$ in a bankrupt company that I was told we had been bailing out for the past few months so it wouldn't go bankrupt. The investment of my taxes into an industry that has had poor visioning and lack of over site is in itself a poor decision. My taxes would be much better spent on corporate welfare that goes to new idea research at our higher education facilities, green technology manufacturing, like Zen cars, and public transit. Imagine the number of spin off jobs that would created from such an investment. such an investment would also align with a world where oil will be $150.00 + a barrel and the car, as we know it, will become redundant.

There is talk today the Conservatives want to sell off another of our leadership industries. They have been systematically undermining the ability to keep our nuclear industry as a world leader. They have been constantly under funding the research and earlier they cancelled the Maple Leaf project. Now our reactor is down that makes so much of the world's medical isotope they are ready to abandon it rather than buil a new modern one. The Harper Government does nothing but belittle our great industrial heritage. We need a government that will stand up for our scientists and the future of our industrial leadership.

The Government has targeted the environment in its budget package. The Conservatives weakened laws that protect waterways and fisheries by undermining the Navigable Waters Protection Act. The amendments had no place in the budget and should have been debated separately as a change to environmental assessment policy. Also Federal environment Minister Jim Prentice announced that Ottawa would eliminate environmental assessments from90% of the "Building Canada" stimulus plan.Under the cover of job creation the Conservatives are reversing our environmental protection.
We stand to lose many of our steams and rivers to unfetter pollution.

Last week we saw additional evidence that the Harper Tories have no intention of protecting the Canada's environment. Environmental Commissioner Scott Vaughan reported the Governments 's environmental programmes would not get the results the Tories claimed. At the same time Environment Minister Jim Prentice's goes to Washington to object to the new U.S. act that would impose charges on imports from countries with weaker emission regulations. As we have such water down targets obviously Prentice went to complain about these "boarder adjustments" because Tories have no environmental protection plans.
Lets get a new Government that will put in strong environmental legislation and turn back all the Tory cancellations like the changes to the Navigable Waters Act.

I have been a bit behind in my reading. I see the McGuinty Government is again working against the creation of jobs in Ontario's manufacturing sector. The Zenn car has been regulated out of the market so we loose jobs in Ontario. The decision is also an environmental green industry disaster. An opportunity to be a world automotive leader has been lost missed! At the same time we give my tax dollars to over incompetent CEOs to run crumbling enviromentally poor companies.