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Toronto to ban pesticides
Well the wacos at Toronto City Hall have finally done it. Under the
leadership of the ill-informed and incredibly ignorant chair of the board of health, Mr. Joe Mahevic the city has put together a bylaw that will effectively ban the use of pesticides on lawns and golf courses within the city of Toronto. The " Greenies " on council state that it is time for the citizens of their fine city to begin exploring alternatives to synthetic pesticides for controlling weeds and insects on their lawns. Synthetic pesticides such as common weed spray which have been around for over 50 years now without a single documented problem concerning humans will be banned from use. Exactly what " organic " alternatives they see as a solution to the problems wasn't disclosed. The city itself instituted it's own form of pesticide restrictions on city-owned property a few years ago. Back then Jack Layton, the now famous leader of our NDP party, was just a humble city councilor at the time and spearheaded the move. Pesticide use by the public works department was severely curtailed and we were assured by Jack that all would be well. Everything was fine, of course, for a few years. Now that Jack has moved on to new challenges we are left with a city with parks and boulevards that are all but destroyed. The cost to repair the damage will be astronomical. The incredible irony in it all is that the city of Toronto is currently dumping pesticides down the storm sewers in an attempt to control the mosquito population and gain control of the west nile virus. I guess it's ok for the city to dump larvicide down the sewers and eventually out into Lake Ontario and eventually into our drinking water, but it's going to be a crime for me to spray my lawn with a weed spray that will only go on the lawn and will completely decompose in 14 days leaving nothing behind but a few dead weeds. If anyone wonders if what the " greeenies " say is true that "you can keep a healthy, virtually weed-free lawn without the use of pesticides", you should take a drive through Toronto. The truth of the matter is that if you simply fertilize a lawn and don't treat the weeds the weeds will eventually take over. Good luck with the new bylaw Toronto. I think you are going to need it. Peter H |
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