This page preserves the message of a 2021 CTV Northern Ontario report featuring Stop the Spray Ontario Co-Presidents Joel Theriault and Troy Woodhouse. Its warning is even more urgent in 2026.
“After the spray happens, I wouldn’t see an animal there for five years. It’s a dead forest.” – Joel Theriault
“I think we all have the right to clean drinking water and we all have the right to harvest animals on our traditional land, free of chemicals.” – Troy Woodhouse
2026: The Evidence Is Overwhelming
The Seattle Statement on Glyphosate (March 2026) represents a global consensus of independent scientists.
- The Findings: Independent research now definitively links these chemicals to long-term environmental persistence and to severe risks to human health that were ignored for decades. In Ontario, those risks extend into our northern watersheds and forest ecosystems.
- The Consensus: There is no longer a “scientific debate.” The risk is proven. Spraying is unethical and indefensible.
READ THE SEATTLE STATEMENT FROM THE WORLD EXPERTS
Without Provincial “Sign-Off,” the spraying stops. Quebec proved this 25 years ago. It is time for Ontario to stop acting like a bystander and start acting like a protector.
🛑 TAKE ACTION:
1. The Policy (The MNR)
There has never been public consent to this chemical exposure. 👉 SEND YOUR NOTICE OF NON-CONSENT
2. The Professional Foresters
A Professional Forester’s signature helps approve a spray plan presented as safe. In 2026, with 61 municipalities and Indigenous leadership formally opposing it for 38 years, how can they still justify that approval? 👉 HOLD FORESTERS ACCOUNTABLE
3. The Investigation (The Ombudsman)
Because forestry is provincially mandated, the Ontario Ombudsman must investigate why the Ministry is failing to adopt the “Precautionary Principle” despite overwhelming expert consensus. 👉 DEMAND AN INVESTIGATION
The 2026 Reality:
- Ontario Chooses: The MNR and Registered Professional Foresters sign off on every spray plan.
- Treaty Violations: Spraying continues in direct defiance of Indigenous leadership.
- Municipal Opposition: 61 Municipalities have formally stood up to say “Stop the Spray.”
When they spray, they disregard every living thing – from our moose, our pollinators, our communities to our future generations.
In Alberta
Now it is triclopyr and imazapyr. Did glyphosate get too much attention? Are they just switching poisons?
Because this is still chemical exposure without consent. It is still public forests, watersheds, wildlife, food plants, medicine plants and communities being put at risk for industrial forestry.
If the answer to public outrage over one herbicide is to use different herbicides, then the problem was never just glyphosate.
The problem is chemical forestry.
