EPISODE 337 HERE IS A TRIP YOU CAN TAKE: FIFTH LINE SOUTH FROM STEELES AVEUE…DO IT NOW WHILE CHANGE IS HAPPENING
alan skeoch
May 2021
SOMETIMES WE SEE THINGS WE WOULE RATHER NOT SEE. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES.
TAKE THIS DRIVE IN THE COUNTRY…ONLY TAKE TWO HOURS FOR MOST READERS
You want something to do? A chance to see some changes in our
country that are inevitable but at the same time disturbing. A chance
to see change happening before your eyes. Change is the only sure
thing in life. Changes occur every day. Irreversible.
If you want to see change rather than read about it then take
this simple trip. It will not take long. Perhaps two hours or even
less. The road is paved but harrow. The road shoulders are too
steep to pull over. Probably you would not want to pull over
anyway.
Best to start at Steeles Avenue and the Fifth Line … Halton County …drive south
until the Fifth Line ends and curves over to Trafalgar Road.
What will you see? You will see just how brutal change can be.
You will see Warehouses being built on a gargantuan scale. You
will see a land being flattened, You will see jobs being created
by the hundreds, perhaps thousands. How many will Lululemon employ?
And if you are there in time, you will see hints of what was once thousands
of acres of fine top soil now piled into immense artificial hills high enough to
blot out the horizon.
You will see the best top soil in Canada. Yes, best in Canada. You will see that
soil being covered with concrete with black steel trusses popping up like nightmares in
a horror show.
So consider the upside.. jobs being created for far more people
than could ever be sustained in agriculture. Measure that with the
downside … the loss of soil. Are we winners or losers?
