Mr. Speaker, there is a move afoot to ship Toronto's garbage to the Adams mine in Kirkland Lake. This concerns me greatly, not only because the mine and I share a name.
Even if the mine is watertight, which it is not, this is no solution for urban garbage. The only way to deal with garbage is to reduce, reuse and recycle it. Dumping garbage is like scratching a festering sore; it makes the problem worse. Putting garbage out of sight and out of mind makes the real problem, the production of garbage, even more difficult to deal with. In this case the extraordinary cost of shipping garbage to northern Ontario makes things worse.
I urge Toronto and the government of Ontario to reconsider this decision at least until metro becomes a national and international leader in recycling.