Agent Orange is Murder in Ontario

Apparently (Toronto Star) Agent Orange (hereafter AO) has been used by the Ontario and Federal Governments to defoliate trees, bushes, etc on the side of highways and under Ontario Hydro pylons. For those of you who did not live the 1960s generation let me explain. AO was used in Vietnam in the 60's/70's during the Vietnam mistake. It was used as a defoliant by the USAF to remove the forest canopy so that enemy movement could be monitored and thereby bombed successfully from the air. Only after the the fighting stopped did we learn that AO was a cancer causing agent and basically destroyed human genes.

In the early 1980's I lived in Guelph. I lived next door to a Vietnam veteran. He was in the USAF in Vietnam in the 60's/70's. His duty was to fill tanks on aircraft with AO. He was married and had a 6 year old son. This little chap had everything wrong with him and his prognosis was death in a few years. The USAF refused to admit at the time that AO in anyway had caused this little boy and my friend health problems. Later we learned that AO was directly responsible. Finally the Veterans Administration in the US admitted the problem and my friend returned to the US for medical treatment for his son.

The use of AO in Ontario is bad enough but for the Ontario and Federal Government to hide its use is criminal. It is not just the use of AO. in Ontario. It is the manufacture, the storage and the subsequent dumping of unused product that is the killer. Norm Goodhead , my father, owned the largest (privately owned) waste removal business in Canada (Disposal Services). The business was located at 55 Fenmar Drive in Weston, Ontario and he also owned his own landfill in the City of Vaughan (known then as The Town of Maple). Norm was also the "bag man " for the Conservative Party of Ontario and the head of the  Freemasons. If the Provincial Government had unused AO to dispose of they would have called Norm.  If AO was used in Ontario you can be assured that any unused product is buried in in the City of Vaughan.

I could write a history of waste disposal in Toronto that would rival, in volume, the biography of Winston Churchill; however, no one would read it. They simply do not want to know! No one gives a damn! At least not until it kills their child; then somebody will hear about it.