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WE CAN WIN     AND    WE WILL WIN

Sara Harmer - Juno award winning singer and environmental activist – ‘… when you hold a meeting you get lucky and attract a musician with some star power and then during the meeting a resident takes to the microphone and tells how upset he is with what is being done to his lifestyle and commits $5000 on the spot.’

Roger Goulet – Co-founder of PERL – Protecting Escarpment Rural Land – ‘…  gave the audience of 200 a geography lesson that put the issue in a larger context and pointed out just how inaccurate some of the information being given out by the brick manufacturer is.’

Dr Lynda Lukasik - Executive Director of Environment Hamilton – ‘…  talking about how to measure air quality and just how damaging the dust from the shale mine was to the lungs.  When you have someone from Hamilton talking to you about air quality – you know you have someone who “knows whereof they speak.’

Gordon Miller - Former environmental commissioner of Ontario – ‘… gave the keynote address and informed residents “the situation must by brought to the (provincial) government’s attention,” Miller said. “The best means for doing that is a Request for Review filed with the environmental commissioner under the Environmental Bill of Rights,” which would be sent to the MNRF and Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MECC).’

David Donnelly -  An environmental lawyer and former Executive Director of Environmental Defense, Canada– ‘…. the man who kept the focus and who spoke with passionate that is supported by a deep knowledge base and just the right amount of chutzpah.  David Donnelly. informed, entertained and told the audience that they can win their battle.  Donnelly was part prosecutor, part evangelist and always on point.  He worked that crowd almost as well as John Diefenbaker did in his day.  Donnelly informed the audience that he had “served” the Ministry with an order to live up to the Environmental Bill of Rights, which sounded very impressive.  What he did was email a document to the Ministry of the Environment and will follow that up with a hard copy that will be mailed.’