News Release
September 28, 2014
September 28, 2014
NDP COMMITTED TO DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS
For Immediate Release
NDP COMMITTED TO DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS OWEN SOUND – Recently, residents in the riding of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound were subjected to an automated telephone survey asking about voting preferences in the upcoming federal election. Even though the NDP is currently in the process of selecting a candidate, the poll ignored that and named a potential NDP representative. “Democracy requires transparency. In the NDP we are committed to a transparent democratic process, and would not promote any one potential candidate before our members have their say,” said MaryAnn Wilhelm, President of the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP. “
A candidate search committee has been struck and we are in the nomination process. Any NDP supporters interested in participating in our nomination process or in seeking a nomination is encouraged to contact the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP by email at Team@BGOS-NDP.com
NDP COMMITTED TO DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS OWEN SOUND – Recently, residents in the riding of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound were subjected to an automated telephone survey asking about voting preferences in the upcoming federal election. Even though the NDP is currently in the process of selecting a candidate, the poll ignored that and named a potential NDP representative. “Democracy requires transparency. In the NDP we are committed to a transparent democratic process, and would not promote any one potential candidate before our members have their say,” said MaryAnn Wilhelm, President of the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP. “
A candidate search committee has been struck and we are in the nomination process. Any NDP supporters interested in participating in our nomination process or in seeking a nomination is encouraged to contact the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP by email at Team@BGOS-NDP.com
Saturday May 24, 2014
For Immediate Release
Karen Gventer launches campaign to stop Hudak’s job cuts: Which 934?
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound– Today Karen Gventer, NDP candidate in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, launched a province wide campaign questioning Tim Hudak about his plan to fire 100,000 people in the province. Hudak’s plan means 934 jobs in each of the 107 ridings in the province will be cut should he get elected.
“Tim Hudak has committed to firing 934 people in Bruce-Grey-Owen-Sound under his 100,000 job cuts plan,” Gventer said, “The 934 families who depend on those jobs here have a right to know: Who is Tim Hudak going to fire in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound? How many paramedics, firefighters, nurses, educational assistants and teachers are going to lose their jobs here?” Gventer also stated.
“The 934 families in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound that depend on those jobs have a right to know if Conservative candidate Bill Walker has targeted them to join the unemployment line,” Gventer said.
“Conservative Candidate Bill Walker has a responsibility to tell the people of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound region who can expect to lose their job if he’s elected,” Gventer added.
Gventer said she is deeply concerned about the profound impact this would have on families and community in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound.
“Stronger communities are not created by cutting services and jobs that families depend on. Unlike Tim Hudak, Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP have a plan to create local jobs by rewarding employers for every new job they create with a tax credit. New Democrats will keep manufacturers in Ontario by providing tax credits when they invest in their local operations,” Gventer said.
For more information about the Ontario NDP’s plan, visit http://ourplan.ontariondp.ca.
Join our conversation about Hudak’s job cuts using the hashtag #which934
For Immediate Release
Karen Gventer launches campaign to stop Hudak’s job cuts: Which 934?
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound– Today Karen Gventer, NDP candidate in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, launched a province wide campaign questioning Tim Hudak about his plan to fire 100,000 people in the province. Hudak’s plan means 934 jobs in each of the 107 ridings in the province will be cut should he get elected.
“Tim Hudak has committed to firing 934 people in Bruce-Grey-Owen-Sound under his 100,000 job cuts plan,” Gventer said, “The 934 families who depend on those jobs here have a right to know: Who is Tim Hudak going to fire in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound? How many paramedics, firefighters, nurses, educational assistants and teachers are going to lose their jobs here?” Gventer also stated.
“The 934 families in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound that depend on those jobs have a right to know if Conservative candidate Bill Walker has targeted them to join the unemployment line,” Gventer said.
“Conservative Candidate Bill Walker has a responsibility to tell the people of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound region who can expect to lose their job if he’s elected,” Gventer added.
Gventer said she is deeply concerned about the profound impact this would have on families and community in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound.
“Stronger communities are not created by cutting services and jobs that families depend on. Unlike Tim Hudak, Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP have a plan to create local jobs by rewarding employers for every new job they create with a tax credit. New Democrats will keep manufacturers in Ontario by providing tax credits when they invest in their local operations,” Gventer said.
For more information about the Ontario NDP’s plan, visit http://ourplan.ontariondp.ca.
Join our conversation about Hudak’s job cuts using the hashtag #which934
Published May 21, 2014
For immediate release
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP Opens Office in OWEN SOUND
BGOS NDP has opened its campaign office and is holding an Grand Opening …
Friday, May 23 from 6:30 pm
271 9th St E, Owen Sound
It’s beside Jazzmyn's, near the Roxy, right across the road from CFOS and the Sun Times. We hope people will drop in to talk about the issues that are important to them.
We have been knocking on doors throughout the riding since before the election was called and we know that neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives have the policies or the will to address what we’ve been hearing.
It’s time to start talking about how the platforms will affect the people of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound.
For immediate release
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP Opens Office in OWEN SOUND
BGOS NDP has opened its campaign office and is holding an Grand Opening …
Friday, May 23 from 6:30 pm
271 9th St E, Owen Sound
It’s beside Jazzmyn's, near the Roxy, right across the road from CFOS and the Sun Times. We hope people will drop in to talk about the issues that are important to them.
We have been knocking on doors throughout the riding since before the election was called and we know that neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives have the policies or the will to address what we’ve been hearing.
It’s time to start talking about how the platforms will affect the people of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound.
eNewsletter May 2014 On the Road and at the Door May, 2014
The Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound election team is expanding and we’re on the move. We were first to get out there and meet voters. We have canvassed in Owen Sound, Hepworth, Wiarton and Lion’s Head.
Over the weekend of May10-11, our candidate, Karen Gventer spoke at the Lead Now rally against climate change at Owen Sound City Hall. Meanwhile other team members were canvassing in Meaford.
Climate change is as pressing a national and global issue as they come. Ontario is not doing its part. Here’s what an NDP government would do:
Our plans are costed out, and can be implemented without burdening the low and middle income taxpayers any more. We also don’t depend on economic growth, which has not materialized in the past few years.
We hit the road again on Sunday, this time to Allenford and Tara. We’re finding NDP policies are getting a fair hearing at the doors of constituents. Top of mind for many people are high electricity and heating bills, and the precarious nature of work (low wage, part time, temporary jobs).
Here is what the NDP would do about high energy costs and Ontario’s Job Crisis …
Lower the burden of high energy costs by …
Jobs are the economy Good, middle class manufacturing jobs are being replaced by poor, part time and temporary jobs. Precarious, low wage work is now at epidemic proportions, especially in rural Ontario. People are working two, sometimes three jobs, just to make ends meet.
The NDP in this riding have been trying to draw people’s attention to this new economy, partly through our support for Personal Support Workers when they struck for higher wages in December 2013.
Neither Liberals nor Conservatives have been able to reverse this trend. In fact, their policies have made it worse. An NDP government would …
Conservatives say they will create a million new jobs in the private sector. How? By first throwing 100,000 people of work in the public sector. Aside from the devastation that will bring to 100,000 Ontario families, there are very few good, middle class jobs up for grabs in the private sector.
Conservative plans for the public sector will hurt us – higher user fees for things like driver’s license renewals, higher municipal property taxes, and more community school closures.
Successive Liberal and Conservative governments have contributed to Ontario’s Job Crisis. Their approach hasn’t worked in the past and there is no reason to think it will work now.
Bill Walker, the Conservative candidate for this area thinks Tim Hudak can create jobs out of thin air. Don’t be conned.
Links for facts in this Newsletter:
They could sure use your help …
You can donate to the campaign by sending a cheque or money order, payable to:
Campaign to elect Karen Gventer NDP
PO Box 164,
Hepworth ON N0H 1P0
OR go here: https://donate.ontariondp.com/pages/donate-dev?ridingCampaignId=36010
You can volunteer (phoning, canvassing, putting up signs, organizing meet-and -greets)
by contacting:
David McLaren david.mclaren@utoronto.ca 519-534-4107
The Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound election team is expanding and we’re on the move. We were first to get out there and meet voters. We have canvassed in Owen Sound, Hepworth, Wiarton and Lion’s Head.
Over the weekend of May10-11, our candidate, Karen Gventer spoke at the Lead Now rally against climate change at Owen Sound City Hall. Meanwhile other team members were canvassing in Meaford.
Climate change is as pressing a national and global issue as they come. Ontario is not doing its part. Here’s what an NDP government would do:
- Institute an economically viable cap and trade plan for emissions.
- Put an end to developer “SLAPP” lawsuits used to silence local opposition to mega-projects.
- Maintain the feed-in-tariff for household and willing community-based renewable energy generation projects.
- Post all industrial emissions on the Environmental Registry for public comment.
- Invest in public transit and, in urban centres, make it safer to bicycle.
- Companies using natural gas for heat will be encouraged to use it to generate electricity also.
- Offer rebates of up to $5,000 for people who retrofit their homes to make them more energy efficient.
Our plans are costed out, and can be implemented without burdening the low and middle income taxpayers any more. We also don’t depend on economic growth, which has not materialized in the past few years.
We hit the road again on Sunday, this time to Allenford and Tara. We’re finding NDP policies are getting a fair hearing at the doors of constituents. Top of mind for many people are high electricity and heating bills, and the precarious nature of work (low wage, part time, temporary jobs).
Here is what the NDP would do about high energy costs and Ontario’s Job Crisis …
Lower the burden of high energy costs by …
- Taking the HST off heat and hydro bills.
- Giving a $100 annual rebate on your electricity costs.
- Providing you with a grant of $5,000 toward retrofitting your home.
- Cutting the salaries of energy executives some of whom make over $700,000, to correspond to executive salaries in other provinces.
- Ending the give-away of our energy to the US by charging more for electrical exports.
Jobs are the economy Good, middle class manufacturing jobs are being replaced by poor, part time and temporary jobs. Precarious, low wage work is now at epidemic proportions, especially in rural Ontario. People are working two, sometimes three jobs, just to make ends meet.
The NDP in this riding have been trying to draw people’s attention to this new economy, partly through our support for Personal Support Workers when they struck for higher wages in December 2013.
Neither Liberals nor Conservatives have been able to reverse this trend. In fact, their policies have made it worse. An NDP government would …
- Put cash in peoples’ pockets now by getting the minimum wage up to $12/hr as soon as possible, and indexed according to the cost of living. Nearly 70% of Ontario’s economy relies on people buying things. People can’t do that if the months are longer than their pay cheques.
- Pay $100 rebates to families on the cost heat and hydro.
- Decrease the small business tax rate to 4% so they can afford to pay a hike in the minimum wage.
- Raise corporate income taxes, but keep them below those in US states. After big cuts by successive Liberal and Conservative governments, corporate taxes in Ontario are now the lowest in the G7. Low corporate taxes were supposed to create jobs. They haven’t—unemployment and the number of low wage, part time jobs are rising.
- The NDP would bring in a Job Creator Tax Credit of 10% of a new employee’s salary to a maximum of $5,000 for each new hire—payable only when a company actually creates new jobs.
- The NDP will also bring in a training tax credit for companies that help their employees upgrade their skills.
- No more public money for corporations unless they create jobs and keep them here.
- Process minerals in Ontario rather than shipping them (and jobs) off-shore.
- The NDP will make it the law that public procurement money be spent in the Province—that your tax money stays in Ontario and pays for Ontario jobs.
Conservatives say they will create a million new jobs in the private sector. How? By first throwing 100,000 people of work in the public sector. Aside from the devastation that will bring to 100,000 Ontario families, there are very few good, middle class jobs up for grabs in the private sector.
Conservative plans for the public sector will hurt us – higher user fees for things like driver’s license renewals, higher municipal property taxes, and more community school closures.
Successive Liberal and Conservative governments have contributed to Ontario’s Job Crisis. Their approach hasn’t worked in the past and there is no reason to think it will work now.
Bill Walker, the Conservative candidate for this area thinks Tim Hudak can create jobs out of thin air. Don’t be conned.
Links for facts in this Newsletter:
- Environmental Commissioner of Ontario http://www.eco.on.ca/blog/tag/cap-and-trade/
- Western Climate Initiative http://www.wci-inc.org/index.php (background at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Climate_Initiative)
- Ontario’s Seismic Shift in jobs and work https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/seismic-shift
- Short Film, ‘Poor No More’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ1ypJ2erpw
- NDP Policy http://ontariondp.com/en/policy
- Short Film, ‘Made in the USA’ (what right-to-work-poor really means) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57iy7pbQ0Wo
They could sure use your help …
You can donate to the campaign by sending a cheque or money order, payable to:
Campaign to elect Karen Gventer NDP
PO Box 164,
Hepworth ON N0H 1P0
OR go here: https://donate.ontariondp.com/pages/donate-dev?ridingCampaignId=36010
You can volunteer (phoning, canvassing, putting up signs, organizing meet-and -greets)
by contacting:
David McLaren david.mclaren@utoronto.ca 519-534-4107
Lead Now Rally
Owen Sound City Hall Saturday May 10th, 10:00 am
Ontario NDP wanted a full EA
on Line 9 oil pipeline
Provincial Environmental Assessments should be done if the Federal process is inadequate.
OWEN SOUND: Unhappy with National Energy Board’s (NEB’s) version of an environmental assessment (EA), the NDP called for a full Provincial EA of Line 9, Enbridge’s plan to pump Alberta oil sands crude through the pipeline that runs from Sarnia, across the top of Toronto and into Montreal.
Karen Gventer, Provincial candidate in the June 12th election, will be at the Lead Now rally at City Hall to expand on New Democratic environmental and energy policy.
“The Ontario government, if it had the political will, could still hold its own EA on Line 9,” says Ms Gventer. “The National Energy Board process that approved Line 9 in March was more like a blessing than an environmental assessment. Citizens had to apply to be heard at the hearings. The Liberal Government’s wishy-washy response as an intervener only gave legitimacy to a flawed assessment of the project. The NEB looked primarily at technical matters—what is the risk of a spill given its construction. The question for voters is which party do you want standing up for the environment.”
Provincial EAs have different priorities than NEB hearings—protection of source drinking water for example—and they are certainly more responsive to public concerns. Environmental protection is important in the context of broader energy policy, especially when you consider the catastrophic explosions of rail cars carrying oil in Lac Magantic and more recently in Lynchburg Virginia, and the frequency of oil spills along pipeline routes.
Over the 38 years it has been in operation, Line 9 leaked over 3 million litres of oil into the environment.
"Smudge for Mother Earth"
Earth Day event at the Bayshore
In honour of Earth Day, the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP is helping to organize a "Smudge For Mother Earth" event,
April 22 at noon,
in the park beside Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound.
Open to everyone from all nations.
Karen Gventer, our NDP provincial candidate, said the following about the event, “It is important that we remember to look after the Earth every day, so that our children and their children have clean air to breathe and safe water to drink. I wanted to take part in a local event.”
According to their facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/events/209589019250891/) “Smudge for Mother Earth” is an opportunity for everyone to recognize our role in harming the earth. At all “Smudge for Mother Earth” events, people will pray that the water, land and all life heals. Our Elder, Shirley John, will be leading the smudge and prayer at the Owen Sound event.
Indigenous peoples draw a strong association between the health of the earth and the well-being of women. We will pray for all Indigenous women who have gone missing and murdered. “We pray for all women and all of Mother Earth to be healthy once again," said Wanska, national organiser of the event.
“We impact each other and we impact nature. Everything we do reverberates in nature,” said MaryAnn Wilhelm, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP President and Director of the NDP Aboriginal Commission. “As for me, I’ll be at the Smudge and I’ll be out with an NDP team on Saturday picking up litter in Owen Sound,” she said.
Karen Gventer and MaryAnn Wilhelm will also be joining the Metis when they celebrate Earth Day on April 27th. Contact the Metis Centre for further information about that event.
Earth Day event at the Bayshore
In honour of Earth Day, the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP is helping to organize a "Smudge For Mother Earth" event,
April 22 at noon,
in the park beside Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound.
Open to everyone from all nations.
Karen Gventer, our NDP provincial candidate, said the following about the event, “It is important that we remember to look after the Earth every day, so that our children and their children have clean air to breathe and safe water to drink. I wanted to take part in a local event.”
According to their facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/events/209589019250891/) “Smudge for Mother Earth” is an opportunity for everyone to recognize our role in harming the earth. At all “Smudge for Mother Earth” events, people will pray that the water, land and all life heals. Our Elder, Shirley John, will be leading the smudge and prayer at the Owen Sound event.
Indigenous peoples draw a strong association between the health of the earth and the well-being of women. We will pray for all Indigenous women who have gone missing and murdered. “We pray for all women and all of Mother Earth to be healthy once again," said Wanska, national organiser of the event.
“We impact each other and we impact nature. Everything we do reverberates in nature,” said MaryAnn Wilhelm, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP President and Director of the NDP Aboriginal Commission. “As for me, I’ll be at the Smudge and I’ll be out with an NDP team on Saturday picking up litter in Owen Sound,” she said.
Karen Gventer and MaryAnn Wilhelm will also be joining the Metis when they celebrate Earth Day on April 27th. Contact the Metis Centre for further information about that event.
March 9, 2014: Concerns about the Elections Act
Dear Editor,
The local riding association of the New Democratic Party is very concerned that the Harper Government’s new Fair Elections Act will prevent some Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound voters from casting a ballot in the 2015 Federal election.
Photo Identification will be required at polling stations—voter registration cards or vouching for your neighbour will no longer be accepted. People who are familiar with voting procedures, including Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer, Marc Mayrand say this will be effectively disenfranchise some voters: those who turn up without the proper photo ID and cannot get home to retrieve it; elderly people; students whose photo ID shows their home address, not their university address; young voters; the homeless; First Nations people; those struggling with poverty.
As it happens, the latter groups do not usually vote Conservative, but we suspect the government knows this and that adds to our concern.
Witold Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union for Pennsylvania battled state Republicans’ attempts to suppress the vote of certain groups in the US . He recognizes the Fair Elections Act as the thin edge of the wedge.
In the US , Republicans have as much admitted that their concerns over voter fraud were a smoke screen for passing more restrictive measures in order to target groups who tend to vote Democrat. As in the US , there is no evidence of voter fraud in Canada . The Minister for Democratic Reform, Pierre Poilievre, quoted a report by Harry Neufeld, former Chief Electoral Officer for BC as proof of widespread voter fraud and therefore the need for restrictions on voter ID. Mr. Neufeld’s report does not say that; in fact, Mr Neufeld is now on record as saying the Government misrepresented his report.
Another member of the Government, MP Brad Butt said, in Parliament, that he witnessed people scooping up voter registration cards from an apartment building. Then, a few days later, he said he didn’t see it.
Misleading Parliament is the same as misleading Canadians and you could be found in contempt of Parliament for doing it. When the Speaker ruled Mr Butt had misled the House and that Mr Butt’s “mispeak” should be examined in Committee, our MP, Larry Miller voted against it.
It’s not voter fraud we need to worry about—Canadians are generally an honest bunch. It’s electoral fraud.
Ironically (or perhaps purposely), other sections of the Fair Election Act will make it harder to investigate that: things like robo-calls, funding irregularities and impersonating an electoral officer.
People can register their displeasure at http://saveyourvote.ca/.
Sincerely,
Karen Gventer
Vice-President, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP Riding Association
Dear Editor,
The local riding association of the New Democratic Party is very concerned that the Harper Government’s new Fair Elections Act will prevent some Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound voters from casting a ballot in the 2015 Federal election.
Photo Identification will be required at polling stations—voter registration cards or vouching for your neighbour will no longer be accepted. People who are familiar with voting procedures, including Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer, Marc Mayrand say this will be effectively disenfranchise some voters: those who turn up without the proper photo ID and cannot get home to retrieve it; elderly people; students whose photo ID shows their home address, not their university address; young voters; the homeless; First Nations people; those struggling with poverty.
As it happens, the latter groups do not usually vote Conservative, but we suspect the government knows this and that adds to our concern.
Witold Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union for Pennsylvania battled state Republicans’ attempts to suppress the vote of certain groups in the US . He recognizes the Fair Elections Act as the thin edge of the wedge.
In the US , Republicans have as much admitted that their concerns over voter fraud were a smoke screen for passing more restrictive measures in order to target groups who tend to vote Democrat. As in the US , there is no evidence of voter fraud in Canada . The Minister for Democratic Reform, Pierre Poilievre, quoted a report by Harry Neufeld, former Chief Electoral Officer for BC as proof of widespread voter fraud and therefore the need for restrictions on voter ID. Mr. Neufeld’s report does not say that; in fact, Mr Neufeld is now on record as saying the Government misrepresented his report.
Another member of the Government, MP Brad Butt said, in Parliament, that he witnessed people scooping up voter registration cards from an apartment building. Then, a few days later, he said he didn’t see it.
Misleading Parliament is the same as misleading Canadians and you could be found in contempt of Parliament for doing it. When the Speaker ruled Mr Butt had misled the House and that Mr Butt’s “mispeak” should be examined in Committee, our MP, Larry Miller voted against it.
It’s not voter fraud we need to worry about—Canadians are generally an honest bunch. It’s electoral fraud.
Ironically (or perhaps purposely), other sections of the Fair Election Act will make it harder to investigate that: things like robo-calls, funding irregularities and impersonating an electoral officer.
People can register their displeasure at http://saveyourvote.ca/.
Sincerely,
Karen Gventer
Vice-President, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP Riding Association
2 February, 2014, for Immediate Release
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP comment on Justin’s Gambit
The Prime Minister made a good point in response to the news that the Leader of the Liberal Party has shot himself in the foot: “I gather the change announced by the leader today is that unelected Liberal senators will become unelected senators who happen to be Liberal.”
Now, you’d think an NDP riding association would be among the last to quote anything Mr Harper says—except, of course, to differ. So, just to be clear, we don’t want an elected Senate.
But when all the dust settles from Mr Trudeau’s excommunication of his Senators from the Liberal caucus, not much will have changed. The 32 Senators will still talk like Liberals, walk like Liberals and vote like Liberals. Either that or they will have surrendered all effective opposition to the Conservative juggernaut in the Senate.
The motion the NDP put forth in October would have seen both parties release their Senators to work on the behalf of the country, instead of their Parties. Why didn’t the Liberals support the NDP motion? Why was it “ridiculous” then and not now?
But there is something else that bothers us and should bother Canadians. In devising his plan in secret and springing it on his caucus as a fait accompli, Mr Trudeau is acting in the same high-handed and unilateral manner that Mr Harper and his PMO have been criticized for.
This is precisely the kind of thing Michael Chong’s timely Reform Act is designed to stop. In Mr Chong’s draft legislation it is the caucus that decides who sits as a member of the caucus.
We support Mr Chong’s Reform Act. It will be interesting to see if local Liberals do, or whether Mr Trudeau will let Liberal MPs vote freely when it comes to the floor of the Commons, as NDP MPs certainly will.
Monique Taylor , Ontario NDP Critic for Child and Youth Services
Will be in Bruce-Grey July 5 & 6, 2013
Owen Sound--Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound New Democrats are hosting a visit to the area by the NDP critic for Child and Youth Services, MPP Monique Taylor. On Friday afternoon and Saturday, Ms Taylor will be meeting with several agencies related to her critic area. She will be available for interviews.
On Saturday afternoon, July 6 she will be guest of honour at a BBQ and dance at the James Mason Centre on the Chippewas of Saugeen Reserve at Southampton ( 47 French Bay Road in Southampton Ontario ).
BBQ from 6:30
Speakers at 7 pm
Dance from 8:00 pm
The NDP is working to improve children and youth services. For example, Ms Taylor is sponsoring a private member ' s bill (Bill 42) which would give oversight of Children ' s Aid Services to the Ombudsman.
Monique represents the riding of Hamilton Mountain in the city in which she was born and raised. She won election in 2011, soundly beating then Liberal Cabinet Minister, Sophia Aggelonitis by nearly 6,000 votes. She comes to her role as Critic for Child and Youth Services by drawing on her years working as a single Mom.
Backgrounder at http://www.thespec.com/news-story/2218575-who-is-monique-taylor-/.
Will be in Bruce-Grey July 5 & 6, 2013
Owen Sound--Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound New Democrats are hosting a visit to the area by the NDP critic for Child and Youth Services, MPP Monique Taylor. On Friday afternoon and Saturday, Ms Taylor will be meeting with several agencies related to her critic area. She will be available for interviews.
On Saturday afternoon, July 6 she will be guest of honour at a BBQ and dance at the James Mason Centre on the Chippewas of Saugeen Reserve at Southampton ( 47 French Bay Road in Southampton Ontario ).
BBQ from 6:30
Speakers at 7 pm
Dance from 8:00 pm
The NDP is working to improve children and youth services. For example, Ms Taylor is sponsoring a private member ' s bill (Bill 42) which would give oversight of Children ' s Aid Services to the Ombudsman.
Monique represents the riding of Hamilton Mountain in the city in which she was born and raised. She won election in 2011, soundly beating then Liberal Cabinet Minister, Sophia Aggelonitis by nearly 6,000 votes. She comes to her role as Critic for Child and Youth Services by drawing on her years working as a single Mom.
Backgrounder at http://www.thespec.com/news-story/2218575-who-is-monique-taylor-/.
May 8, 2013: Work to get the Chi-Cheemaun running
Dear Editor,
While Larry Miller has been alarming people with reports of lay-offs on the Chi-Cheemaun, possibly as a deliberate cost saving measure, (which turn out to be untrue – there were no lay-offs), the NDP was working to get the government to fix the ports. Three representatives: NDP MP Olivia Chow, NDP MP Carol Hughes, and NDP MPP Mike Mantha all brought up the delayed start to the season in their respective parliaments. They also met with other government officials about the issue. The goal is to have the Chi-Cheemaun running again as soon as possible, restoring this vital transportation link. It is because of the work of these politicians that the provincial government came up with the necessary money to fix the docks. Now, we just need to encourage the feds to allow the process to be sped up.
Sincerely,
Karen Gventer
Vice-President Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP
Dear Editor,
While Larry Miller has been alarming people with reports of lay-offs on the Chi-Cheemaun, possibly as a deliberate cost saving measure, (which turn out to be untrue – there were no lay-offs), the NDP was working to get the government to fix the ports. Three representatives: NDP MP Olivia Chow, NDP MP Carol Hughes, and NDP MPP Mike Mantha all brought up the delayed start to the season in their respective parliaments. They also met with other government officials about the issue. The goal is to have the Chi-Cheemaun running again as soon as possible, restoring this vital transportation link. It is because of the work of these politicians that the provincial government came up with the necessary money to fix the docks. Now, we just need to encourage the feds to allow the process to be sped up.
Sincerely,
Karen Gventer
Vice-President Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP
