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Tim Gray
Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada. Gray and Environmental Defence have been among the most vocal opponents of the York1 Dresden landfill expansion, publishing detailed analysis of the threat to the East Sydenham River's 33 species at risk — including Canada's only salamander mussel population — and campaigning against Bill 5's cancellation of the provincial environmental assessment. Environmental Defence filed formal submissions opposing the project at every stage of the ERO process.
Connected Scandals
The Ford government promised a comprehensive environmental assessment for a proposed landfill directly upstream from Canada's only population of the salamander mussel — then buried the reversal inside omnibus Bill 5 after winning a byelection on the promise, exempting a company whose owners donated $200,000 to the PCs from all provincial environmental review, leaving 33 species at risk in one of Canada's most biodiverse rivers with no provincial protection.
Environmental Defence published major reports documenting the threat to the East Sydenham River's species at risk from the York1 landfill and actively opposed the Bill 5 EA exemption through public submissions, ERO filings, and public advocacy.