Outhouse Law:

Soon, with the QR 28 law, we will be forced, even in the forest, to have septic tanks like those who live in the cities and at our expense, arrange for a sanitation truck to come some 160 km in the forest to empty our tanks. In the forest there are cottage owners who do not even have roads to their cottages, so can you imagine how a sanitation truck will be able to get there to empty the septic tanks, 160 km from La Tuque and Saint-Michel des Saints. I don’t believe there exists anywhere, a hydroplane capable of empting septic tanks.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is an abuse of power and a disconnection from reality.  Reality in the forest, if you are unaware and I will gladly explain, is very simple, you bring a shovel, dig a hole, crouching low to the ground behind a black spruce tree with your pants around your ankles, always accompanied with black flies and mosquitoes and in your right hand, a roll of toilet paper. It can also be behind the door of an outhouse which is basically a deep hole in the ground with 4 walls and a roof.  Our basic natural needs in the forest are not any more damaging for the environment than that of the wild animals.

You have to understand that most of the cottage owners, campers, hunters, fishermen and nature lovers, frequent the forest maybe 3 or 4 times a year from a few days to maybe 2 weeks. I dare to believe that there are people who would have the audacity to defecate in a lake. Therefore they should not generalize.

I tried but without success to sensitize the municipal and provincial governments but they are hard headed to our requests under the pretext that they have a very good lasting development plan for the Haute Mauricie territory. The moral of this story is that they want to tax us even for what comes out of our bodies, and this even while in the middle of the forest. The goal is to tax and make money from our excrements, nothing else. While they are taxing my excrements why not recycle it and sell it to the government of Quebec and the MRC of the Haute Mauricie. It would most definitely help me pay for my septic tank along with the sanitary truck to come all the way to my cottage, that by the way, has no electricity, running water, phone or internet, to empty it.