REFUSES To Protect Your IPM Data ― Contact Him & Demand That The IPM Web-Site Be Shut-Down NOW !
Tony DiGiovanni – Part 2 Of 2 – Background Information
For DiGiovanni’s profile and contact information, go to the following link …
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Landscape Ontario & Tony DiGiovanni
Tony DiGiovanni has served as Executive Director of Landscape Ontario since 1989.
In essence, DiGiovanni RUNS Landscape Ontario.
DiGiovanni is The Big Cheese, The Big Wheel, The Bigwig, The Grand Kahuna, The Grand Pooh-Bah, The Head Honcho, The High Muck-A-Muck, The Kingpin, The Mandarin, and The Panjandrum.
As Executive Director, he is ENTIRELY responsible for Landscape Ontario’s CAPITULATION to the Ontario’s Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act [ i.e. prohibition ] in 2009.
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Landscape Ontario & The Conspiracy To Impose Prohibition
DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario has never been trustworthy or reliable on matters concerning the prohibition against pest control products used in the urban landscape.
Additionally, DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario is responsible for the destruction of the professional lawn care industry.
Why should anyone trust Landscape Ontario, its elected officials, and administrative staff ?!?!
DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario CAPITULATED to prohibition ?!?! Really ?!?! Believe it !
In 2009, DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario CAPITULATED to arbitrary, unnecessary, and reckless prohibition.
DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario betrayed hundreds of businesses operating in the professional lawn care industry ― they did so by using several strategies ―
• the capitulation to, and support of, prohibition against pest control products
• the half-hearted attempts to resist prohibition
• the consolation of devastated business owners with a unique form of funeral services
• the acquisition of financial benefits for supporting prohibition
• the dispensation of false-information about green alternatives
• the dispensation of false-information about prohibition
• the white-washing of the business carnage inflicted by prohibition
• the bestowment of accolades to lunatics who imposed prohibition
• the validation of the use of illegal products because of prohibition
See later segments for more details.
Landscape Ontario has CAPITULATED TO, and even SUPPORTED, anti-pesticide prohibition because it is an undependable and a short-sighted trade association that prefers to cater to the « pot and flower » nursery industry ― it could not care less about the professional lawn care and golf industries.
Is it any surprise that certain board members at IPM Council of Canada, who also have close ties to Landscape Ontario, DO NOT give a sh*t about the elevated threat against golf superintendents and their facilities ?!?!
Observers have concluded that anyone with close ties to Landscape Ontario, like Tony DiGiovanni, should NEVER be allowed to serve on the IPM Council’s board of directors.
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Landscape Ontario Supports Prohibition
DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario even ACTIVELY SUPPORTED province-wide prohibition against pest control products used in the urban landscape.
On April 22nd, 2008, DiGiovanni’s own Chairman of the Landscape Ontario Lawncare [ sic ] Commodity Group, Gavin Dawson, officially supported Ontario Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act [ i.e. prohibition ] ―
The professional lawncare [ sic ] industry in Ontario ACTIVELY SUPPORTS the concept of a strong, province-wide pesticide law, to replace a patchwork of contradictory municipal by-laws. [ ?!?! ]
While we recognize there is more work to be done on the details of this initiative, the McGuinty government has delivered on its promise with a Bill [ i.e. prohibition ] that ensures consistent standards everywhere, which apply equally to professionals servicing our green infrastructure and the do-it-yourself market. [ ?!?! ]
DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario tried to do too-little-too-late on November 19th, 2008 by seemingly withdrawing its support of the Ontario Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act ―
Urgent Call to Action.
The draft regulations under the Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008, released by the government on November 7th [ 2008 ] are COMPLETELY UNSATISFACTORY to Landscape Ontario and the professional lawncare [ sic ] industry.
In 2009, Tony DiGiovanni issued the following statement ―
The [ Ontario ] government actions [ regarding prohibition ] are callous, insensitive, extreme and disrespectful to a growth industry that employs over 66,388 full–time people ( 22,000 in the turfgrass sector alone ).
Many safe and effective products have been taken away from the industry and public.
I am not aware of any other sector in history that has been treated with absolutely no empathy.
Despite the HALF-HEARTED RHETORIC from DiGiovanni and his organization, observers have learned that NO ONE can trust Landscape Ontario, its elected officials, and administrative staff !
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Prohibition Destroyed The Professional Lawn Care Industry
Because of Ontario’s Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act [ i.e. prohibition ], the province now has a trail of economic destruction with hundreds of small businesses destroyed and thousands of people terrorized and put out of work.
The devastation of the professional lawn care industry was extensive because there were NO valid economical alternatives to replace the prohibited products.
Consequently, businesses operating in the professional lawn care industry were incapable of providing adequate weed and insect control, and were unable to keep their customers satisfied.
Because of Ontario’s Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, the professional lawn care industry lost over 500,000,000 dollars, with over 12,500 unemployed.
Until recently, in Ontario, one-business-per-week disappeared into total oblivion.
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/carnage-leading-to-business-failures/
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/ontario-living-in-environmental-infamy/
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/carnage-caused-by-anti-pesticide-prohibition/
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Why Should Anyone Trust Landscape Ontario’s Decision-Makers Like DiGiovanni ?!?!
In 2009, it was well-understood that DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario would DO NOTHING to defend the future of the professional lawn care industry !
Decision-makers at Landscape Ontario conspired to betray, torpedo, and destroy the professional lawn care industry by CAPITULATING TO and SUPPORTING Ontario’s reckless and arbitrary provincial prohibition.
If the lawn care industry could not trust DiGiovanni in 2009, why should the golf industry trust DiGiovanni in 2016 ?!?!
For years, DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario has sounded, and acted, and operated like an anti-pesticide & environmental-terrorist organization ― and now, coincidentally, so does DiGiovanni’s IPM Council of Canada.
DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario has never been trustworthy or reliable on matters concerning the prohibition and pest control products.
And now, in 2016, some of these very same decision-makers from Landscape Ontario, like DiGiovanni, who now operate IPM Council of Canada, continue their agenda of betrayal against almost 700 golf facilities located throughout Ontario.
Nearly half, 40 per cent, of the board members at IPM Council of Canada have close ties with Landscape Ontario.
Why should anyone trust Landscape Ontario decision-makers, like DiGiovanni, who now preside over sensitive and potentially-destructive IPM data belonging to the golf industry ?!?!
Observers have concluded that DiGiovanni is NOT FIT to be entrusted with the safe-keeping of sensitive IPM data that will inevitably be used to attack, to humiliate, to damage, and to destroy golf superintendents and their facilities.
As a director and decision-maker at IPM Council of Canada, DiGiovanni has granted golf-hating lunatics with the wholesale and the unconstrained access to the Ontario golf facilities’ sensitive and potentially-damaging IPM data !
Consequently, these golf facilities are in deep #@!!% trouble, because of DiGiovanni and other directors with close ties to Landscape Ontario.
This is the WORST ATTACK CAMPAIGN ever perpetrated against the golf industry with the objective of attacking, humiliating, damaging, and destroying businesses that operate in the golf industry.
It has been concluded that DiGiovanni should NEVER be allowed to serve on the IPM Council’s board of directors.
DiGiovanni should « Get Off The grASS » of the golf industry.
In fact, ALL board members at IPM Council who have close ties to Landscape Ontario MUST RESIGN.
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Landscape Ontario & The Black Death
As predicted in 2009 by Ontario Integrated Pest Management Association, most of 7,000 licensed applicators were forced out of work and/or business because of Ontario’s reckless and arbitrary 2009 provincial prohibition.
DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario DID make half-hearted statements that were critical of Ontario’s prohibition, calling the legislation extreme and disrespectful.
Nonetheless, DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario CAPITULATED to prohibition, hence assuring the BLACK DEATH of the professional lawn care industry.
DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario is a FAILURE as a trade organization.
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/trade-association-the-failure-of-lands-cape-ontario/
Fortunately, Landscape Ontario was prepared to console owners whose businesses had been annihilated its own UNIQUE FUNERAL SERVICES, demonstrating yet again that DiGiovanni is NOT FIT to be entrusted with the safe-keeping of sensitive IPM data that will inevitably be used to attack, to humiliate, to damage, and to destroy golf superintendents and their facilities.
( See next segment. )
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Landscape Ontario’s Unique Funeral Services
First, in 2009, DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario CAPITULATES to arbitrary, unnecessary, and reckless prohibition that assured the BLACK DEATH of the professional lawn care industry.
Then, DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario attempts to console devastated business owners with its own unique FUNERAL SERVICES.
DiGiovanni’s response to the horrendous business carnage amounted to nothing more than functioning a DIRECTOR OF FUNERAL SERVICES while the professional lawn care industry was being annihilated ―
Our role is to assist in the transition [ towards the annihilation caused by the prohibition of pest control products ].
Some of them [ the devastated lawn care businesses ] will figure it out.
Others won’t make it this year.
[ May God have mercy on their souls. ]
There is a lesson to be learned here ― « pot and flower » trade associations like Landscape Ontario have NOT been decisive enough in defending issues pertaining to pest control products. Their interests seem to traditionally remain elsewhere.
Despite the half-hearted rhetoric from DiGiovanni, observers have learned that NO ONE can trust Landscape Ontario, its elected officials, and administrative staff !
It has been concluded that DiGiovanni should NEVER be allowed to serve on the IPM Council’s board of directors.
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Landscape Ontario As A Financial Beneficiary Of Prohibition
In 2009, DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario betrayed the professional lawn care industry by supporting prohibition, and, by 2010, started receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in pay-offs from the government of Ontario.
DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario was, seemingly, rewarded by the government of Ontario with pay-offs under the pretext of « research funds » to study bogus green alternative pesticides.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were flushed down the toilet with these pay-offs !
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Landscape Ontario & Its White-Washing Of Prohibition Carnage
By late 2010, two years after prohibition was imposed in Ontario, surveys proved that DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario was WRONG ! Survey results by CropLife indicated that Ontario’s prohibition was horrifyingly bad for business !
In 2010, twenty businesses operating in the professional lawn care industry took part in a survey conducted by CropLife and Landscape Ontario. Despite statements from owners that the effects of Ontario prohibition against their businesses was devastating, decision-makers at Landscape Ontario sought to white-wash and sanitize what amounted to catastrophic business destruction.
Ontario’s reckless and arbitrary 2009 provincial prohibition inflicted horrendous carnage in the form of business destruction and business failures. Owners, employees, and families dependent on businesses operating in the professional lawn care industry faced terror, despair, and destitution because anti-pesticide prohibition.
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/carnage-leading-to-business-failures/
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/ontario-living-in-environmental-infamy/
Why would Tony DiGiovanni lead and support this kind WHITE-WASHING OF PROHIBITION CARNAGE ?!?!
By 2010, it became very obvious that those products allowed under Ontario’s 2009 provincial prohibition were more expensive, and needed to be applied more often.
This was confirmed in 2010 by Weed Man, the most successful franchise business of its kind ―
The business requires higher prices [ as a result of prohibition ].
We must lose the customers used to cheap lawn care of the past forty years.
In January 2011, founding-members and other lunatics who supported prohibition within Landscape Ontario attempted to shut-down The Pesticide Truths Web-Site in order to thwart the reports about the trade association’s white-washing and sanitizing of prohibition.
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Landscape Ontario & Its Dispensation Of False-Information
More white-washing and sanitizing of prohibition by DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario.
Landscape Ontario maliciously attempted to validate Ontario’s prohibition by providing false-hope to businesses operating in the professional lawn care industry ― it did so with the dispensation of false-information about green alternatives.
In one of its newsletters, published in 2009, Landscape Ontario dispensed false-information about green alternative pesticides and practices that could not possibly produce the results equivalent to those conventional products that were being banned. In fact, the newsletter made no sense whatsoever since green alternatives are bogus, are ineffective, are dismal failures, and do not work !
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/green-alternatives-bogus-dismal-failures/
In fact, a survey conducted in 2010 demonstrated that the vast majority of lawn care businesses said they believed that there was definitely a need for more effective pest control products since Ontario’s prohibition was imposed.
Nevertheless, DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario maliciously attempted to validate Ontario’s prohibition by scheduling a subversive amateur home-made foreign video called « A-Terrorist-Reaction » at its Canada Blooms consumer show. The video contained subversive propaganda designed to pollute any sound judgment in the conspiracy to prohibit pest control products. The video event was cancelled because of outcries from the professional lawn care industry.
Why would Tony DiGiovanni lead and support these kinds of DISPENSATION OF FALSE-INFORMATION ?!?!
Within a year, it became obvious that DiGiovanni himself was DISPENSING FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT PROHIBITION ! ( See next segment. )
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Tony DiGiovanni & His Dispensation Of False-Information
In 2011, Tony DiGiovanni embarked on a foreign lecture tour to speak IN FAVOUR OF prohibition.
He told Americans to give up the fight against pesticide-hating activists and support bogus green alternative pesticides.
This was DiGiovanni’s proposed Win-Win Situation for all of our industries.
He spoke just like a bug-eyed prohibition-lunatic.
Why would DiGiovanni actually attempt to convince hapless American that prohibition was somehow good when his own organization’s survey results demonstrated that prohibition was horrifyingly bad for business ?!?!
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Landscape Ontario Bestows Accolades On Anti-Pesticide Politician
DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario has even bestowed accolades and honours on a destructive lunatic politician who imposed reckless and arbitrary prohibition.
Why ?!?!
In 2010, David Miller was honored by Landscape Ontario with an Environment Award.
Why ?!?!
While serving as mayor of Toronto, Miller was the principal architect of arbitrary prohibition against pest control products used in the urban landscape, which led to the destruction of the professional lawn care industry.
This prohibition supported the vested financial interests of anti-pesticide & environmental-terrorist organizations, like World Wildlife Fund ( WWF ).
Coincidentally, in 2013, Miller was rewarded for his support of the prohibition conspiracy with an lucrative appointment as president and CEO of WWF-Canada ( a.k.a. World Wildlife Fund, a prominent anti-pesticide & environmental-terrorist organization ).
Why was this destructive lunatic ever honoured by Landscape Ontario ?!?!
Why would Tony DiGiovanni lead and support this kind of BESTOWMENT OF ACCOLADES ON AN ANTI-PESTICIDE POLITICIAN ?!?!
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Landscape Ontario & Its Validation Of Illegal Pesticide Use
In reaction to the restrictions imposed by prohibition, many members of DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario could not be bothered with legal and registered green alternatives as replacements for conventional weed control products like Killex.
And, since, 2012, all members of DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario have been ignoring a warning from the Government of Canada to cease and desist in their use of illegal knock-off pesticides.
Rather than use permitted products like Fiesta Herbicide, they found that you can lie and cheat with low-cost fertilizer-grade agricultural iron equivalent knock-offs !
The use of this form of illegal iron herbicide was⁄is a clear violation of federal and provincial law.
On March 12th, 2012, the Government of Canada warned Landscape Ontario that any member found using/promoting an unregistered iron fertilizer for weed control would be subject to compliance and enforcement measures.
Nonetheless, the wide-spread use of iron equivalent knock-offs by its members has remained unresolved by DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario.
And even by 2014, DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario seemingly validated, or at least tolerated, the use of illegal agricultural iron equivalent knock-offs by its members.
https://pesticidetruths.com/2014/11/21/2014-landscape-ontario-lawn-care-commodity-group-highlights/
Why would Tony DiGiovanni lead and support the VALIDATION OF ILLEGAL PESTICIDE USE ?!?!
――――――――――――――――――――
Tony DiGiovanni ― Part 2 Of 2 ― Background Information
Landscape Ontario & IPM Council Of Canada
DiGiovanni’s Landscape Ontario has never been trustworthy or reliable on matters concerning the prohibition against pest control products used in the urban landscape.
Again, observers warn that nearly half, 40 per cent, of the board members at IPM Council have close ties to Landscape Ontario, including with DiGiovanni himself as director.
It should come as NO SURPRISE that the very same IPM Council board members who TORPEDOED AND DESTROYED the professional lawn care industry while serving as elected officials and administrative staff at Landscape Ontario in 2009 would now, in 2016, REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE THE IMMINENT AND ELEVATED THREAT against golf superintendents and their facilities !
Over the course of time, observers have become disgusted with Landscape Ontario, and consequently, have demanded that it « Get Off The grASS » of the professional lawn care industry.
It should also « Get Off The grASS » of the golf industry.
All board members at IPM Council who have close ties to Landscape Ontario, including with DiGiovanni himself, serve no useful purpose to the golf industry, and MUST RESIGN.
――――――――――――――――――――
Background Information
The Elevated Threat Against The Golf Industry
The golf industry is under the elevated threat of hacking-attack campaign perpetrated by golf-hating fanatics who are pilfering sensitive and potentially-harmful information about Ontario’s golf facilities !
Under provincial law, golf facilities in Ontario must submit annual reports on their use of pest control products ― these reports are known as IPM data.
At present, this IPM data is stored on the unsecured web-site of the IPM Council of Canada.
Here is the link to web-site …
This web-site contains thousands of detailed reports on the use of pest control products by hundreds of golf facilities.
Throughout the months of June and July, 2016, messages were sent by e-mail ordering the hacking-attack campaign against the golf industry.
Here are the links containing these messages …
Throughout the summer of 2016, the IPM data on the unsecured IPM Council web-site has been downloaded ( i.e. hacked ) by fanatics for the purpose of attacking, humiliating, damaging, and destroying businesses that operate in the golf industry.
The master-mind of this hacking-attack campaign is a revenge-obsessed fanatical enviro-leader who holds the golf industry falsely accountable for the sad death of her son as a result of his supposed exposure to pest control products used by golf facilities near her home.
The destruction of golf facilities will serve as revenge for the son’s death.
Here is the link containing details about the golf industry attack campaign and its master-mind …
Owners, directors, managers, and superintendents of golf facilities operating in the province of Ontario are being strongly urged to PROTECT THEIR IPM DATA ― NOW !
IPM Council of Canada has betrayed almost 700 golf facilities throughout Ontario.
These golf facilities are in deep #@!!% trouble !
Please go to the following link for more information …
Owners, directors, managers, and superintendents of golf facilities must demand the shut-down of the unsecured IPM Council web-site ― NOW !
They must also demand the removal of data from the unsecured IPM Council web-site … NOW !
Or else, Ontario’s golf facilities will face their own SHUT-DOWN ― FOREVER !
Owners, directors, managers, and superintendents must COMPLAIN TO ALL BOARD MEMBERS of the IPM Council !
Go to the following link to obtain contact information about IPM Council board members …
So far, the IPM Council has been given at least twelve distinct and detailed warnings ! TWELVE !
Since June 21st, 2016, the IPM Council has been STRONGLY URGED TO SHUT-DOWN ITS WEB-SITE on an indefinite basis, until decisions can be made to better secure its web-site from Golf-Hating PCN-Lunatics.
Here is the link to the first warning on July 21st, 2016 …
https://pesticidetruths.com/2016/06/22/golf-industry-attack-warning-to-the-ipm-council-of-canada/
Why are IPM Council board members refusing to protect the sensitive and potentially-harmful information stored on its web-site ?!?!
The board members of the #@!!% IPM Council are enabling anti-pesticide & golf-hating lunatics by granting them wholesale and unconstrained access to the golf industry’s sensitive IPM data !
Why ?!?!
Observers have vetted the board of directors of IPM Council of Canada, and have concluded that it is dominated by members who have nothing in common with the golf industry ― they could not care less about golf superintendents and their facilities.
It has also been concluded that half of the members IPM Council of Canada have close ties to organizations that support arbitrary and reckless prohibition against pest control products.
Consequently, observers are not surprised that IPM Council of Canada has betrayed the golf industry in Ontario.
――――――――――――――――――――
Background Information
Catastrophic Carnage Created By Landscape Ontario ― Business Destruction & Business Failures In Ontario
CARNAGE INFLICTING BUSINESS DESTRUCTION & FAILURES – ANTI-PESTICIDE PROHIBITION EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED & DESTROYED THE PROFESSIONAL LAWN CARE INDUSTRY ( Web-Page )
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/carnage-leading-to-business-failures/
CARNAGE INFLICTING BUSINESS DESTRUCTION & FAILURES – PROVINCE OF ONTARIO – LIVING IN ENVIRONMENTAL INFAMY – DISINTEGRATING CUSTOMERS & PLUMMETING REVENUES ( Web-Page )
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/ontario-living-in-environmental-infamy/
CARNAGE INFLICTING BUSINESS DESTRUCTION & FAILURES – PROVINCE OF ONTARIO – DISINTEGRATING CUSTOMERS & PLUMMETING REVENUES – TWO YEARS AFTER PESTICIDE BAN IN ONTARIO … MORE WEEDS AND INSECTS – PROHIBITION IS BAD FOR BUSINESS – FROM FIVE TRUCKS TO ONE – LANDSCAPE ONTARIO – 2011 08 17 ( Report )
CARNAGE INFLICTING BUSINESS DESTRUCTION & FAILURES – PROVINCE OF ONTARIO – ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9|11, DO ANTI-PESTICIDE BASTERDS IN ONTARIO CELEBRATE THE SUCCESS OF THEIR TERRORIST COLLEAGUES ? ( Blog )
――――――――――――――――――――
Hey Tony DiGiovanni !
Hey IPM Council Of Canada !
DO YOU GIVE A SH*T ?!?!
Your Unsecured Web-Site
Must Be Shut-Down
NOW !
――――――――――――――――――――
――――――――――――――――――――
1 thought on “Tony DiGiovanni – Part 2 – Background Information – The Golf Industry Vs IPM Council & Landscape Ontario ! – 2016 08 10”
Comments are closed.