[Paddlewise] Canadian construction

<FontFamily>Every year for past 23 years,  I and others ha paddled and 
sailed in the St Lawrence Thousand Islands Canadian  National Park. Much
prettier than the highly developed US side of  that waterway. Looks like
those days are nearly over! 

Chuck Sutherland 
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Subject: TIARA - Canadian Government to Gut Navigable  Waters Protection
Act for the sake of economic growth.   Greetings from TIARA;  A fan 
of TIARA's Heritage River Project (<pFF>www.slhr.ca) from  the Cornwall 
area alerted us to some very disturbing news. The Canadian Federal 
government has plans virtually all environmental protection provisions 
for  Navigable Canadian waterways for the sakeconomic development. Hard 
to believe, but we've checked and it's true!  We've learned; "If you 
can drive anything smaller than a cruise ship down a waterway in Canada,
it will be considered navigable and is fair game to developers to build 
anything and everything on / over / in without an environmental impact 
assessment. A sad  day for rivers in Canada if these amendments are 
allowed to pass,  which the government is trying to fast track as part 
of their budget to expedite infrastructure projects to help get the 
economy moving  - i.e. short term gain for permanent long term 
irreparable damage.  TIARA will protest this plan by taking the 
matter up with Federal Parliamentary representatives from all along the
St. Lawrence  River. In the meantime, what follows is a broadcast email 
from  the Canadian Rivers Network.  We remain concerned about the 
Harper government's intentions  to gut the Navigable Waters Protection 
Act and exempt  thousands of waters from the provisions of the act by 
calling them  "minor waters" and by exempting "minor works" from the  
provisions of the act.<FontFamilyr> 
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