Government officials are refusing to meet with Ontario farmers about a controversial missile defence radar after one of their group wrote to Defence Minister David McGuinty to complain about his department’s lack of transparency on the project.

Rachel Brooks, a farmer who is part of group raising questions about the high-tech system, said she has been told by the Department of National Defence that they will no longer agree to meetings because she wrote to McGuinty on Nov. 27. Brooks had complained to the defence minister that the project team involved with the Over-the-Horizon Radar was not providing adequate information or properly consulting with area residents.

“I’ve learned that since I’ve written directly to the Minister of Defence about the lack of meetings, the project team will

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