I have many emails that I have sent to government officials. I reached out to International organizations…I get emails from other members of groups…I send letters in. I have spoken and reached out to a MPP [Member of Provincial Parliament] who is very concerned about what’s happening here…[the MPP] believes that this is not the right place for wind turbines. But [MPP’s] efforts have not prevailed.

I had a one-on-one in-person talk with [a former Minister of the Environment]…I’ve written to many, many people…our township…Ministers of Health…the health unit…people that I sent emails to federally, provincially, municipally…I don’t even send them the letters anymore...We know they don’t care.

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change…I have written at least a dozen. I have even written twice to the new one [Ministry] and the [former Premier of Ontario]. I even sent a letter to the [Prime Minister of Canada]. But of course, he’s not going to say anything…the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has written back. They have a spokesperson…I would be told stuff I already know.

…the Ministry of Environment officer…advised us to contact the wind company and to report it to them…We didn’t hear anything for quite awhile…their [wind developer] representative called…we met with him…he was going to make arrangements to bring an acoustical company here...The engineer said “That is infrasound”. He said “We will be setting up our equipment to test for infrasound.” We cleared our schedule, we waited, we waited…They never showed up…We heard nothing from the developer.

…we’re at the point where we’ve contacted everybody we can contact…Except the lawyer. We’re going to think about that…And just to clarify with her, if we sell this place, can we be held responsible? My thought is what if some family moved in, with a little kid, and that poor little kid has to go through what we’ve been through. Can you be held responsible down the road…That’s what we want to clarify with the lawyer.

...it’s a really difficult message to get out there. And everybody thinks wind is green. It’s hard to change the minds of the people in Toronto. So it was very discouraging to see what the government was doing to our environment, to our trees, to our land. Irreversible damage to putting cement in the ground and never ever taking it out…That’s one of the reasons why we never pursued wind turbines for ourselves because we just didn’t think it’s the right thing to do for the land. It had nothing to do with money. It was the land we were concerned about and of course the wildlife.

…it was horrific, terrible and that conversation continued to try and just when you would get told possible ways that it would be fixed and your health would be fixed and it never was. We went to various levels of government as well. It was the most disheartening, emotionally and mentally hard on all of us that our elected representatives did not listen to our concerns enough.

I never thought it would be this bad, or this deep, or this wrenching or this life changing.

Well, it’s hard to believe that in Canada, we could have such a corrupt set-up that ignores people’s health. The evidence is there and the political will, definitely, it’s just the political will. We heard last night that somebody’s child was being taught how wonderful wind turbines are in the school-curriculum.