Dresden locals, First Nations take landfill fight to Queens Park [Video]

Local residents and a First Nation brought their fight against a large landfill to Queen’s Park, where they accused the premier of trampling over the community’s concerns to fast-track a project backed by his donors.

The chair of a local advocacy group says the community feels betrayed by the decision to cancel an environmental assessment for the landfill just north of Dresden, a small rural farming community in southwestern Ontario.

Stefan Premdas, the head of the group, questioned how the project got singled out in a controversial omnibus bill introduced by Premier Doug Ford’s government.

The Liberals have asked the integrity commissioner to look into whether the government gave the project preferential treatment because it’s backed by lucrative Progressive Conservative donors.

Ford says he doesn’t know the developer and didn’t look at who owned the project.

He says Ontario sends about 40 per cent of its waste to the United States and President Donald Trump could turn …