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May
2002 Newsletter
City
Spending Quarter Million to Fight those "Expressway
Opponents"
The
City has allocated $258,000 to pay for lawyers whose job
will be to prevent release of any information that may assist
"expressway opponents".
The
City says these people are using "legal requirements
in an effort to block or frustrate the completion of the
expressway." It says that "the actions of Expressway
opponents, first in trying to have the Canadian Environmental
Assessment Act applied, and their most recent complaints
to the Ministry of the Environment, emphasises the importance
of ensuring that reports now in the process of being finalised
receive a legal review prior to being released."
This
language suggests that the federal government is also lumped
into the "expressway opponents" camp. No reports
have been released by the City since August 1998. EVERY
expressway study done previously found major problems with
the project. The City is now admitting that keeping these
studies out of the hands of valley supporters has become
an urgent and expensive task.
This
is a continuation of the policy that resulted in $4.5 million
of our taxes being spent over the last two years in preventing
an independent environmental assessment.
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