Robert Kennedy Jr. defends claim that Alberta fish inedible

27/01/2010 10:36:28 AM

I don't enjoy eating fish very much. I especially don't like eating fresh water fish. Our family lived on fresh water fish and other wild game when I was a child in Northern Ontario.

I lost my appetite for it when I was about nine. It was the day my brother choked on a whitefish bone. I did too. Since then I have always attempted to avoid choking. It so happens that I'm prone to choking.

I choke on BS when I hear it. For example what is happening to the world common lands of the province of Alberta is a large pool of global BS. They say it can be seen from The Moon. That BS has clouded the thinking and judgment of the recent governments in that province.

They are destroying their children's heritage and health and probably their sovereignty as Canadians. Governments think it's a “sweet deal” to sell our oil to the United States of America. It's just so sweet. It's “sweet-water”...that is toilet water or sewage.

We Canadians need the honest and brave son of the late Robert Kennedy to come to Banff, the Parks Canada heartland, and tell us that we are out of our poor minds. Read his comments about the mercury content of fish in Alberta at the link below. The same sad tale holds in all parts of the land.

Our federal [Conservative] government has suppressed the Auditor General's Report on the Environment which details exactly how bad things are. About 90% of our national fresh water resources are already polluted beyond human consumption according to that suppressed report. The remainder is being rapidly compromised. Fish cannot live safely in what we cannot drink safely.

This claim is substantiated by our fresh water scientists from The University of Alberta in Edmonton to the University of Waterloo and beyond. These are our best experts and the world's best experts. The government does not want to hear their opinion. I make a point of asking them about the fresh water challenges we face and listening to their reports.

Among scientists it's a consensus. Something is wrong...something is terribly wrong. We can make it right if we know what's going on and understand how to combat it with democratic methods.

The sad fact is that a very influential oligarchy [exclusive small power group] is governing and making decisions about what should be known and what should be done. These people and others like them have been making decisions in our behalf because Canadians don't think they should get involved, often due to shame, a sense of futility, or insecurity.

These people don't want you involved. They want to destroy the Earth and the environment while making very large profits. And they don't want anyone to notice or interfere. Tell your government that you want the Auditor General's Report on the Environment released for public viewing. We pay the Auditor General very well to serve us and Canada.

Not everyone has real life experience in displacing entrenched oligarchies. I happen to have such experience in greater abundance than I wish to recall. It's important to remember that they [the small ruling group] can be removed and replaced. This can and must be done democratically in order to be legitimate.

That's the beauty of democracy according to Abraham Lincoln. Though you can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time...even if you wish real hard like Mr. Harper is doing.

It's laughable and lamentable and pathetic. Poor Mr. Harper. Poor Canada.


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Robert Kennedy Jr. argues that Health Canada’s regulations are misguided and there are no safe levels of mercury.

“Here’s what I would say to Health Canada: if you want mercury in your fish, any mercury, even a molecule of mercury, you should add it yourself at home,” Kennedy said. “But don’t put it in fish that the public has to eat, and don’t allow polluters to put it into the fish that the public has to eat.”

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