A signs warns to avoid contact with the water along the shores of the St. Lawrence River, Wednesday, November 11, 2015 in Montreal. OTTAWA -- Canada's old-fashioned city sewer systems dumped nearly 900 billion litres of raw sewage into this country's waterways over five years, enough to fill up an Olympic-sized swimming pool more than 355,000 times.
Mark Mattson, president of Swim Drink Fish Canada, says that number should shock people and he's hopeful it will push the public to demand swifter action from governments.
Sad.....
BUILD MORE POOPLINES
Unacceptable! 😡😡😡
Yummy!
Where's Greta when you need her LMFAO
But what about the children!!!!
Congratulations! Seems you’ve found your way out of that cave you’ve been in 👍🏻
What the hell, are we just going to keep this up until we destroy the whole planet.
Totally double standard, east vs west, human waste vs oil. Ok to dump waste in St. LAWRENCE River, not ok to pump oil to market. One costs the environmental, other brings in revenue to perhaps clean up the river.
GretaThunberg where is your high school ass now? Do you believe that raw sewage being dumped is environmentally correct? Just asking on behalf if most of Alberta.
JustinTrudeau liberal_party cathmckenna JonathanWNV HOW is this acceptable in 2020
ClimateCrisis ? How about we focus on the low hanging fruit like this. 😐
Quebec dumping?🤬 Let’s invent taxes to save the environment.
Carbon bad. Poop in water non-issue. :^|
MABurrowes Where is the collective outrage from the 'land defenders' and 'water protectors'
Wow, if true we had Better get with it Canada. This isn't the way we want our waterways to be, garbage dumps.
I understand primarily from the community that doesn't want that 'dirty' Alberta oil and natural gas.
Smelling it now.
If it didn't originate in Alberta in some way then no one cares lol
Canadas Back!
Let’s block roads to Parliament eh
Maybe those are the pipelines that need to be scrutinized.
Victoria, that bastion of environmentalism dumps raw sewage into the ocean because they are too cheap to treat it. Quebec dumps tons of raw sewage into the Saint Lawrence river for the same reason. I once thought that we were an advanced country. I guess not.
But cathmckenna snowshoes to work on bare pavement so it's all good
That makes Liberal environment ministers “Shit Ministers” doesn’t it?
Luckily for Montreal, the Protectors of the Land don't have a Protectors of the Water division.
What locations in which provinces?
Here comes the toilet tax and the poo refund that gives more back than you were taxed for taking a crap initially. It's working with Carbon, it will work with poo!
While the JustinTrudeau government focuses on REAL issues - plastic straws and tax on groceries to “save the planet”
Yikes
And all approved by former Minister of ClimateHysteria cathmckenna
The french 💩 is the worst. All that poutine. Same with CBC sewers.
Well ain't that the shits.
Approved by Catherine McKenna. Or should we call her crappy McKenna.
Did they use pipelines?
montrealstrong
seems like a lot
To add some perspective since media hacks love to leave it out, that’s the equivalent of about 375 Olympic pools over more then half a decade for a country of over 35 million people for a country with 202,000km of coastline and 2 million lakes & rivers. Meant to shock...
Yes Trudeau says. Do it.
My! That's 360,000 olympic size swimming pools of pooh.
Oh barbie where art thou ?
“There is no social acceptance for a pipeline through Quebec” ......but hey let’s dump our raw s&!t in the St Lawrence. Esti !!
!!!! Damn Why? O well the world well end in 12 years. We don't need any Water..
That's a lot of crap
Canada has its priorities mixed up. So do some of the idealist people Canada voted in to power. Hang on! More turbulence ahead.
Quebec
Raw sewage in our waterways is ok but oil in safe pipelines isn’t
mayoushtak Who authorized that?
Mostly from Quebec!!
mayoushtak Where's the protesters ?
mayoushtak GretaThunberg
Pollution is still free in Quebec, McKenna lied yet again cdnpoli
Can probably take a wild guess where majority is dumped... But where are the environmentalists fighting for clean water? Paid off by the Liberals
Where are the blockades. Stand in the water and stop the flow. Come on! Where are the protestors? You know, not the eco terrorists? They don’t care about the water is the rights of people? No commerce stop the flow of shit! Eh JustinTrudeau GretaThunberg andre
Yet all the public gets is cap n trade and carbon tax... serious these are the policy we allow our politics to take instead of actually addressing environmental issues.
And none of it came from Alberta or Saskatchewan, go figure.
It should state when this is occurring. When it's raining and the infrastructure is poor, large amounts of ground water seeps in. A lot of plants don't have enough storage to hand these events. The percentage of sewage to rain water is low. Raising taxes can solve this.
This is all so far out to lunch, I'll lay bets most 'protesters ' have no idea what they're protesting.
That's not on the land... lol It's okay to dump raw sewage in waterways and poison it, but don't dig the soil..
No protests ? 🤷♀️
If you loaded all that sewer on super b’s the line up would be 1000 kms long
And we are supposed to pay a carbon tax to somehow fight climate change, does this government not understand how stupid they look
It doesn't stink, just like Canadian Liberals.
anyone ask mckenna? why did this take so long to report?
Seriously! liberals waste time on co2 emissions, taxing us to death. Worrying, about pipelines and oil. But don't give a shit about our drinking water. We need a serious leader, not a manchild activist!
WTF
One of the CPC campaign promises was to start repairing our sewer systems. But all CTV cared about was abortion and pride parades. Maybe you could start reporting on real campaign promises.
cathmckenna care to comment to Canadians? TY Cdnpoli
Blazingcatfur
They ignore it because it cost too much to build sewage treatment plants. 😑
You voted for this Canada.
But we spill oil on the ground via rail and we got people wondering why Alberta hasn’t shut down yet
But, but This is a real environmental concern and not Climate Fraud Marxism.AGWFraud cndpoli
Wow CTV a news story bravo
Perilous_Canada Where’s Barbie?
... Eastern Canadians really really mustn’t like pipelines if they are willing to do this shit. Pun intended.
I live right next to the st. Lawrence river and haven't gone near the water in over 15 years. Stinks disgusting brown water. The fish that come out of there have sores and disfigured.. wtf is wrong fix this now!!!
So their pipelines go right into the river, shit instead of oil? Talk about a 'distinked society' !! Bravo, Legault!!!
So much for Trudeau and his green talking, carbon taxing, bullshit....
Yes, this is much better than global warming, ffs.
GretaThunberg well look at this
Jeezus don't tell Trudeau, he'll find a way to tax your bowel movements. The ' Turd-O-Tax'.
7 years and you just discovered this, pathetic. So many of us want this stopped. Montreal, Vancouver and Victoria all do it. How much sewage do those 3 dump? There are so many more towns on the st. Lawrence that do it. Please try and keep up, thought you were a news organization
I wonder if that has something to do with all the dead whales
And we are focused on CO2 emissions🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Where are the protesters?! 😜
But... oil sands!
100 times the a mount of oil spilled by pipelines in the same time frame.
Don’t hear anything from the tree huggers, liberals or Greta on this. Why is that?
But we cant have a pipeline. Follow the money to find out why.
lol no shit.
JustinTrudeau Maybe time to put that carbon tax to some good use and clean this up! This needs to be banned.
We could have used some of the revenue from the Teck project, into fixing rivers, but that's gone now so...good luck
One more thing the Prime Minister needs to address. Also, this has been going on in Montreal into the St. Lawrence for longer than that. (30 years) It doesn’t matter who is Prime Minister, it matters what they do about it.
Where is climate pig cathmckenna
Mostly in Quebec of course. F*ck that's gross.
This is disgusting! Especially in Canada. Fix it.!!! A place in British Columbia does the same. While you are at in Fix the water at Grassy Narrows too.
Fun fact: all cities dump their sewage....however most are treated.
Lots more sky-high thrones flushing into the great lakes.
and I am not allowed a septic tank because my property is 100m from the lake. oh the ignorance.
And not a single protester 😡😡😡
Is building water treatment infrastructure not an option? Or is our government more concerned about investing in foreign energy and infrastructure instead? cathmckenna
This has to stop..
Hey, hey. What do you say? That’s OK!
These are the same people that don’t want our DIRTY oil. Are u kidding me.
No shit?
Quebec is one province that is dumping its raw untreated sewage into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I think the BlocQuebecois should address this problem as soon as possible.
Isn’t this in the same province with concerns about oil pollution in the West? Hmmmm
Lol but JustinTrudeau is the climate crusader right? What a Joke
Nothing importing 50k more people into the city can't solve!
Jc
Sewage is FINE but God Forbid a Pipeline - Canadian hypocrisy at its finest ... NDP and Liberal Governments seem to ignore their own violations with great willingness and glee.
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