To:   Dalton McGuinty
cc:   Howard Hampton

Due to the loud silence on the captioned subject, I logged on to the Ontario Liberal Party website to find out your policy stand, as our MPP singularly failed to enlighten me (please see attachments).

Much to my surprise, I found only two passing references: clean air in the context of large urban areas, and clean water in the context of the Walkerton disaster!

Not a single paragraph on one of the most insidious and pernicious of root causes of a plight inflicted on rural and urban-rural Ontario. In your own neck of the woods, Ottawa, the Devil has one foot inside the gates, as you must surely know.

Animals in the wild do not foul their nests. We, or rather our Government, on the other hand are blindly pursuing a non-policy on environmental self-defense and preservation or have blithely become apologists and silent partners for largely absentee landlords of Mega/Agri-Business to the detriment of all. This is not yet irreversible.

Opposition politicians have a golden opportunity to make electoral inroads. There is a wide and broad spectrum of Ontario citizenship with whom the subject will resonate very deeply. That coast is clear as Conservatives have hopelessly boxed themselves in with regards to any facet of the environmental file. Simply put, people's votes are there for the loosing! Personally I would hate to witness a repeat of 1995 when Liberals snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

I urge you to take both a practical and principled stand on the issue and make it the Liberal Party's for the benefit of current and future Ontarians.

Michel Synnett
RR4 Picton