Dear MPP Smith,
Thank you for the newsletter you sent out regarding provincial funding for our riding’s organizations. Positive news is good news! I especially appreciate the funding for Georgian Bay Biosphere and local Wetlands.
I am curious about the lack of any mention of funding for mitigation, and adaptation to what will be this century’s largest impact on people, infrastructure, wildlife, forests and lakes…that is the Climate Crisis.
For me the most obvious example within your portfolio as Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry is last June’s wildfire crisis in our province. With choking smoke curling around my house, a very uncomfortable reminder was delivered; Climate Change is real, it’s here now, and it’s going to affect All of us!
Please share with us what your Ministry is doing to improve the carbon footprint of the forestry industry. Are you considering changing logging practices like stopping clearcutting, spraying Roundup, and moving away from monoculture forestry practices? These changes could help protect us from wildfires and species loss like Woodland Caribou!
Please share with us what your government is doing to help the municipalities in our riding reduce carbon footprint and adapt infrastructure to climate change.
Please tell us why you, and Premier Ford agreed to keep funding Enbridge and its installation of more gas line infrastructure thereby increasing our carbon output?
Minister Smith, everybody knows business as usual is not going to solve our problems around Climate Change.
Sincerely, Kim deLagran
Utterson, Ontario
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Stephen Adams says
There is no climate crisis. I think everyone commenting here is old enough to remember global cooling in the 80s. That didn’t work, so global warming in the 90s and 2000s. That didn’t work either. Some marketing geni5came up with climate change, thus any change in weather patterns (although typical) can be marked as “different” or a change.
Your tax dollars cannot be used to fight the weather. Stop believing this nonsense and get back to real life.
Eric Savage says
Kudos to you, Kim. Don’t hold your breath for a reply from the Minister or Premier.
Steve Adams: What planet are you from?
peggy tupper says
I totally agree with Stephen Adams. The whole “climate thing” is a hoax to increase taxes. Paying more taxes will not change the weather. BTW the climate has been changing for billions of years and humans had nothing to do with it.
Dave Stewart says
I totally agree with Steve Adams.
85% OF FOREST FIRES ARE CAUSED BY MAN *
Quebec man pleaded guilty to intentionally setting 14 forests on fire during the Spring of 2023.
Nova Scotia police charged a man for intentionally setting off the provinces largest ever wildfire,
RCMP charge Alberta woman with 32 counts of arson after spring wildfires
CONTROLLED BURNS AS FORESTRY MANAGEMENT TOOL IS HAPPENING LESS OFTEN AS PROTESTORS OBJECT
CO2 is a trace element in the atmosphere. Less than .01% We are in a warming trend coming off the little ice age of 1700 to 1850. Look up Millankovich cycles, Maunder sun spot cycles , sun intensity cycles , the PDO 20 to 30 year warm water cycle in the Pacific , El Nino periodic cycles. Correlation is not causation .
Patrick Moore was a co-founder of Greenpeace. Read his book ” FAKE INVISIBLE CATASTROPHIES AND THREATS OF DOOM “.
*U.S. Forest Service Research Data Archive 2000 – 2017 DATA
Phil Beacock says
Stephen Adams, i fully agree! We have had numerous ice ages, then a thaw and every thousand years we have a warming trend. Science tells us that! Thats fact! Climate change is the flavour of the month!