This is an e-mail I sent to the legislature today regarding street racing and the new Cell Phone legislation. There are links to the attachments so you can read where we are at right now: Dear Elected Members of the Ontario Legislature, This is another in my promised education program about environmental and other legislative subjects. Sorry for the long delay between issues but the in-bound volume and complexity of the issues required it. Since this is a provincial matter, no other province is being copied on it unless it turns out a need arises down the road. The attachments are simple Word documents and contain no viruses or anything malicious. If you are afraid to open the attachments I will e-mail them as separate documents if you request or you can view them on line: The attachments refer to the amendment to Section 172 of the Highway Traffic Act and the upcoming Cell Phone legislation. A copy of the letter to Wayne Arthur, my MPP can be obtained from his office. I encourage you to read them all as there is different information in each and some of the information is too new to be in the book. The information contained in these documents is as factual as a private citizen can make it. The issues do require more work on your part and my part. I hope you understand that this work is not meant to target any one individual but it does illustrate the collective blunders your administration has committed and the fact that you allowed yourselves to be stampeded into a decision based on emotion rather than information. It may be that most of you have never heard of my book ABUSE OF POWER. I can't afford to send you all a free one. There are various MPPs who do have them courtesy of their constituents. You might be able to borrow a copy. If not you can e-mail me back and make arrangements to purchase one. Since you all voted to approve this legislation with few exceptions, you owe it to yourselves to understand the nature of the immense legislative damage you've caused. Not just to drivers but to every citizen of Ontario. To most of you, this may be the first you've heard that the street racing legislation is so flawed it is illegal itself. That would not have been a surprise but for the fact that Global TV's producers botched the news feature they did on the subject. It was titled ONE YEAR LATER. Had that show been aired as advertised, we might be engaged in repairing the legislation by now. While the intent to halt the crimes committed by street racers is laudable, the process you people used to accomplish your goal was poorly thought through and as time passes, the precedent set by the street racer legislation will negatively impact all other Ontario legislation. I believe the cumulative damage will be catastrophic unless steps are taken to correct the mistakes made. I believe the Cell Phone legislation is at least in part a response to a chapter in my book. This legislation I will applaud if it is written properly. Yours truly, John Newell, Pickering