{"id":6289,"date":"2015-09-30T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=6289"},"modified":"2015-09-30T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:31:08","slug":"trashcam-stink-continues-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/09\/30\/trashcam-stink-continues-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Trashcam \u2018stink\u2019 continues to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Robert Frank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Beaconsfielders concerned about privacy, salubrity and potential trash infractions questioned Mayor Georges Bourelle\u2019s new garbage policy during the Sept. 22 city council meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bulk of our customers are\u00a0really unhappy about what is being implemented here,\u201d Beaurepaire bakery owner Dierdre Mannitts told the mayor during question period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mannitts is concerned that passersby will treat her business\u2019 bins as public garbage cans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re also very, very concerned about what might be put in our garbage bin,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe had to do it,\u201d Bourelle replied, blaming Quebec\u2019s new trash regulations. \u201cWe had no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

She reminded Bourelle that\u2014unlike Pointe Claire and Dollard des Ormeaux which have implemented industrial composting\u2014Beaconsfield residents can\u2019t even recycle a pizza box. Beaconsfield environment committee chair Karen Messier claimed that\u00a0that sort of collection would be too expensive for Beaconsfield.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBrown bin collection would cost about\u00a0$400,000 a year,\u201d she argued. \u201cCities that have those brown bins, they\u2019re having problems with them. When people find the meat and bones get stinky, they turn around and throw it in the garbage can. Plus, in wintertime, those materials stick and freeze at the bottom of the bin. The bin gets lifted and the material stays in the bottom of the bin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cSo now if I\u2019m living beside someone who only puts their garbage out once a month, I\u2019m going to have to put up with that stink,\u201d Mannitts replied.<\/p>\n

Bourelle also brushed off concerns that the garbage truck operators last year started sending imagery of alleged garbage infractions to city hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe there\u2019s something toxic. Fine. But what you dump into a garbage truck can contain information other than a paint can,\u201d asserted attorney Brigitte Garceau. \u201cWhat happens with that screen shot is a privacy rights issue, because it is going to the city. The data is being collected and I want to know what happens to it. Did you ask for a legal opinion on the major question of the collection and storage of data by the city and what was the answer?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m not going to get into it,\u201d Bourelle retorted. \u201cGarbage at the curb you have abandoned. So therefore it is no longer yours. [Once] it is in the truck, [the operator] is taking a picture of something that is no longer yours. And it’s all covered in the legal opinion.”<\/p>\n

When Garceau asked to see the opinion Bourelle refused to share it\u2014despite the fact that public money was used to obtain it\u2014and suggested that Garceau call the city’s legal counsel\u00a0Marc-Andr\u00e9 LeChasseur at her cost.<\/p>\n

Both cases that Bourelle referred to in this so-called confidential opinion entail criminal investigations.<\/p>\n

The Quebec Court of Appeal, for example, refused in 2012 to overturn a warrant that Royal Canadian Mounted Police used to search Express Transaction Services\u2019 garbage.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court of Canada also ruled in another case that police who had reasonable and probable grounds could rifle through the garbage of a suspected drug dealer.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether these individual criminal cases permit cities to systematically monitor citizens, or whether Quebec\u2019s civil code and privacy law provisions will instead prevail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However trash contains far more intimate information about private lives that many citizens find needlessly intrusive. \u201cI don\u2019t want the city knowing when I\u2019m having my period,\u201d a Beaconsfield resident told The Suburban.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ultimately, Councilor David Pelletier acknowledged, determined dumpers can defeat trashcam monitoring. \u201cAnyone with cunning can figure out that you can put anything you want in a plastic garbage bag,\u201d he admitted. \u201cWe don\u2019t have x-ray cameras. I don\u2019t want people to start putting toxic crap in garbage bags so it can\u2019t be seen, but that\u2019s the reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that maybe [trashcams] will act as a deterrent,\u201d added Pelletier, who said at a previous council meeting that he stores his garbage for nine weeks. \u201cAnyone who throws out something that shouldn\u2019t be there will get caught.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Suburban<\/em> has started proceedings to obtain the legal opinion through Access to Information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Beaconsfield systematically monitors residents\u2019 trash and stores imagery of alleged infractions indefinitely. (Photo \u00a9 Robert Frank)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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