Jim Bradley, a veteran MPP for the St. Catharines Riding who has served, over his many years in provincial politics, as an Environment Minister for two separate Liberal governments, is said to be in agreement with OPSEU’s president, Warren ‘Smokey’ Thomas, that the NPCA should be working to protect the region’s watersheds for any harm caused by development “The Conservation Authority is really the best vehicle to do that job,” Bradley was quoted saying. “That’s what the Conservation Authority is all about.”