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RURAL RALLY AT
CITY HALL - JUNE 8th, 2005
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PRESS
RELEASE:
May
15, 2005
Rural
Council of Ottawa-Carleton prepares for rally at City
Hall to address multiple governance deficiencies
The
Rural Council of Ottawa-Carleton is planning a Rural
Rally at City Hall between 10:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, June 8th, 2005. We will be supported at the
rally by a number of other organizations.
Busing for those who need it will be available,
compliments of Councillor Glenn Brooks, Councillor Doug
Thompson and the West Carleton Rural Association:
The Rideau bus will depart North Gower RA at 9:00 a.m. and
Manotick arena at 9:20 a.m.
Osgoode busing will be
starting in Greely. Call Doug Thompson's office
for details.
If you need a bus, please advise Glenn's or Doug's
office by voice or email at:
Glenn.Brooks@ottawa.ca
or 580-2491; or
Doug.Thompson@ottawa.ca
or
580-2490.
Residents of Goulbourn are invited to also use
the busses provided courtesy of rural Councillors Brooks
and Thompson.
The
West Carleton Rural Association is filling the gap in
West Carleton, by providing a bus
leaving the Kinburn
Community Centre at
8:50
AM
and returning from City Hall at
1:30
PM.
To reserve a spot on the West Carleton bus, please call
Shirley at 623-0675 or email at
sjdolan@storm.ca.
Following the rally, City Council will meet to consider
the Ward boundary report, which if enacted, reduces
Rural representation by 40%.
A strong voice on Council is needed while many matters
of fundamental importance to us are being considered;
they include the following:
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Ward
Boundary Review recommendations actually reduce
rural effective representation.
In spite of the report from the
first OMB Hearing, the final recommendations by the
consultants this time around still does not give the rural area
the effective representation that was the stated
purpose of the Review ("for Communities of
Interest"). If our rural Community of Interest is not being
heard by city council now, how does reducing our representation by 40% help us?
SEE LINK
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The reclassification of rural
drainage systems to the status of river tributaries,
(which the City will "police" through the
unlimited powers of the DFO), will further destroy
family farming under the sheer weight of
(uninformed) major city
interference into farming practices.
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Sub-watershed studies which are
about to be used as an amendment to the City Official
plan are being unethically used as a means to expropriate rural land rights without
compensation.
SEE LINK
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Increased fees and licensing
obligations under the "one size fits all" label of
Harmonization, seems designed to put rural
farmers markets out of business.
SEE
LINK, also
SEE
LINK, also
SEE LINK
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Allocation of federal and provincial funding in
the "New Deal for Cities" is being designed to
operate to the complete exclusion of
any infrastructure works in the Rural part of the City.
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City-caused Public Endangerment of Richmond
residents on private wells by the city's installation
of a pressurized sewer forcemain from Munster,
is directed centrally through the shallow
drinking water source of more than 5,000 residents
of Richmond Village and area.
SEE LINK The City's high-risk forcemain
preference has cost taxpayers $23,000,000
--in 2004 alone-- (quoting city's own Capital Cost figures:
SEE LINK),
while the completely safe public preference of and
on-site treatment plant, had a firm bid cost of
$3,800,000. Something is very rotten, here!
The list just goes on and on...
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If you feel it is time to stand up and be counted, join
us. We have no chance for change without your support.
Rural Council of Ottawa-Carleton
Janne Campbell
President
Rural Council of Ottawa-Carleton
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