Literally.
The Navigable Waterways Protection Act has been thrown out with the baby's bathwater. The Act, which has protected Canada's waterways for the past 100 years, has been changed to allow thousands of projects to proceed without any environmental review.
How was this done? Via the Federal Budget Bill that has now been approved both by MPs and by the Senate.
What does the Federal Budget have to do with the NWPA? Not much, but it was a convenient way to push through legislation to give "shovel-ready" projects the go-ahead without any regard to the impact to our waterways. Protecting Canada's waterways has become 'optional'.
Canadians have had their rights trampled, again. There was no opportunity for public scrutiny of the changes to the Navigable Waterways Protection Act because they were hidden in the Budget Bill.
The world's fresh water supplies are dwindling. The actions of the Conservatives and Liberals in approving these changes to the NWPA will make matters even worse.
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