MUSINGS ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The politicization of everything drives me crazy. Especially the politicization of the environment. This politicization is exactly why we have to be knocking at disaster's door before anything actually gets done. Everything else is just window dressing until what is obvious the whole planet is finally accepted as fact by politicians with agendas. These agendas of course are directly set by who's lobbied (paid) them the most money recently. Look at climate change. How many years and how many scientific reports were necessary before the politicians decided that despite the oil and gas industry lobby; that they really must do something. Burning of fossil fuels is getting too close to an irrevocable tipping point.

This politicization also carrys over into public consultation. What a great idea for the polluters and or regulators to control so called independent public consultation. This is called having your cake and eating it too. The provincial government controls the Ministry of the Environment as well as local municipal governments who are trying to get infrastructure funds from the province. Any municipality who push too hard say on environmental matters soon learn that their Application for funding on other matters has hit a roadblock. What a system!