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The leftist leaning City of Ottawa Council is now holding a farcical "consultation process" with the public to decide on how and when they are going to outlaw the "Cosmetic" use of herbicides and insecticides on PRIVATE PROPERTY! They already have spent $400K of my taxes on a propaganda campaign to let us know "This is a beautiful lawn." Yes this will also include the application of chemicals by tree care professionals.
I for one am not going to be dictated by a bunch of idiots what I am going to apply on my property, especially given the products in question are legally approved for sale in this Province and Country.
It might have been easy to ramrod a non smoking bylaw through but I want to see bylaw enforcement try to regulate what 150,000 homeowners put on their lawns and gardens, given the products will still be available at your local WalMart for example.
Anyone else out there dealing with similar idiocy and trampling of rights? I see a lot of businesses going under, especially those in the lawn care industry.
For the record I do not "carpet bomb" my lawn with 2-4-D, prefering to spray individual weeds, and only use othr chemicals when the insects or whatever are gaining an upper hand.
Comments?
I for one am not going to be dictated by a bunch of idiots what I am going to apply on my property, especially given the products in question are legally approved for sale in this Province and Country.
It might have been easy to ramrod a non smoking bylaw through but I want to see bylaw enforcement try to regulate what 150,000 homeowners put on their lawns and gardens, given the products will still be available at your local WalMart for example.
Anyone else out there dealing with similar idiocy and trampling of rights? I see a lot of businesses going under, especially those in the lawn care industry.
For the record I do not "carpet bomb" my lawn with 2-4-D, prefering to spray individual weeds, and only use othr chemicals when the insects or whatever are gaining an upper hand.
Comments?