…What happened in Hamilton, the Star has found, is business-as-usual across Canada: Big companies with poor environmental records are getting rich public payouts. A Star investigation found that since 2010 more than $2.6 billion in public money has flowed to dozens of companies that had repeated or significant violations of environmental rules designed to keep the public safe. …Pulp and paper company Domtar, which had 1,800 pollution violations in Ontario from 2011 to the end of 2014, challenged tax assessments, arguing its mills in Dryden and Espanola were valued too high….Since 2010, Domtar has received more than $200 million in federal green subsidies, provincial electricity rebates and to build and maintain public forest roads, while its regulatory fines totaled a comparatively paltry $96,000.