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Dr. Samantha Green
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Family physician and President of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). Led physicians' public opposition to the Ontario Place combined sewer overflow rerouting into the West Channel, warning the construction would create a "preventable public health crisis" involving E. coli, salmonella, norovirus, and giardia in Lake Ontario.
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To prepare Ontario Place for a private Austrian spa, the Ford government rerouted a raw sewage overflow pipe into the West Channel of Lake Ontario — bypassing public consultation, exempting the project from environmental review, and proceeding over the objections of physicians, landscape architects, and 2,250 Ontarians who formally opposed the plan.
Led medical opposition to the Ford government's plan to reroute a combined sewer overflow pipe into the West Channel of Lake Ontario. At a December 2025 news conference, warned that contact with the water after storm events would cause diarrhea, vomiting, skin infections, and eye infections, and that pathogens "accumulate in lake sediments" and persist long after discharge stops.