I went to all the Environmental Review Tribunal sittings for 26 days…this was unbelievably difficult…At one point the judges of the tribunal, the chair, referenced that yes, safety was a concern but that would have to be dealt with somewhere else…I spent before this 15 years living outside of Ontario…I’ve never seen people treated like we were treated there…it was really one of the more disrespectful processes I’ve been involved in…every level of your concerns felt completely disregarded which I’m sure is the job of the legal team for the proponent and the government who sat beside each other, at the same table. It was patronizing, it was just really the most awful experience and it really soured my desire to live in Ontario.

Another thing I found with the legal…my area of work is in science and is in healthcare and the stuff that these lawyers were pulling out, I was like, “This is not science.” I don’t know where they’re getting these arguments but these aren’t science, I wouldn’t even have been able to do that in my undergraduate degree. It was just one of those situations of you just cannot believe what’s happening.