Supporter Questions ARA Committee about Selecting Groups and Individuals for Hearing Presentations

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Published on Friday, 13 July 2012 15:44
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In a letter to the Standing Committe on General Government, dated July 9, 2012, supporter, Helen Purdy raise good points about the selection of individuals and groups selected to speak at the Hearings.

To read her entire letter, click here.

I am very concerned that other individuals like myself and certain public groups have been selectively turned away for some unknown and possibly questionable reasons. I require specific information at this point in time from the Legislative Services Division, Committee Branch so that I have factual information about the process that was followed and those involved in choosing presenters to appear at the public sessions held for the Review of the Aggregate Resources Act.

I also request information about the process that was followed and those involved in the choice of sites that the Committee has visited or will be visiting on its 4 fact-finding excursions. Even the Township of Woolwich raised concerns about the “narrow scope” of the sites legislators visited on the morning of July 9, 2012 (See Waterloo Region Record Article, July10, 2012 “MPPS Get Earful in Review of Gravel Pit Law, Committee Toured Local Gravel Sites”).

 

I would appreciate your response in a timely and forthcoming manner to the following requests for information:

 

  1. Exactly how many requests were made in total by public groups and individuals to make oral presentations?

  2. Exactly how many requests were made in total by municipalities and government agencies to make oral presentations?

  3. Exactly how many requests were made in total by the aggregate industry and other individuals and groups associated with the aggregate industry to make oral presentations?

  4. What was the process followed and the names of those involved in the choice of sites that the Committee visited or shall visit?

  5. What sites have been visited or will be visited and the dates when these visits occurred or will occur.

  6. Which oral presenters were involved with the site visits for the hearing sessions, either directly or indirectly?

  7. Did the Minister of Natural Resources or MNR staff have any knowledge and/or input as to the selection of presenters for each hearing session, either directly or indirectly?

  8. Did the Ministry of Natural Resources have any knowledge and/or input as to the selection and location of site visits, either directly or indirectly?

  9. Did the Ontario, Sand, Stone and Gravel Association (OSSGA) have any knowledge and/or input as to the selection of presenters for each hearing session, either directly or indirectly?

  10. Did the Ontario, Sand, Stone and Gravel Association (OSSGA) have any knowledge and/or input as to the selection and location of site visits, either directly of indirectly?

 

To read correspondence between Helen and Clerk of the Standing Committe of General Government, click here.

Helen was told by Clerk that she would be speaking in the Kitchener Waterloo Hearing but was turned down.