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Drainville to Run for the Green Party Contract 400119680 ESTABLISHED • MAY 1975 VOLUME 45 / NO 22, JUNE 5, 2019 $1.50 (Tax included) Former Gascons general store under renovation Canada Summer Jobs Summer Events Journalist The Gaspé Spec is looking for an enthusiastic summer em- ployee to join its team. Interested candidates should enjoy writing and have excellent English grammar skills. They should also feel at ease conducting an interview. Qualifications: • Excellent English writing skills • Good computer skills • An aptitude for photography • Good organizational skills • Work well in a team environment Gilles Gagné wing is also available in the ish it. We want to keep the ca- • Reliable and responsible back of the main building. “I chet of the shingles. We want • Sociable GASCONS – The former have always dreamed of own- to protect the building’s style,” Robin’s general store in Gas- ing that building. It is not my says Ms. Aubut. Job details: cons is currently under reno- first old house. When I called The building was constructed 30 hours/week for 8 weeks vation. New owners Janick Steve last year to show him in 1916. “It is not classified but Start and end dates are flexible Aubut and Steve Arsenault that project, his first reply was: it is considered by the munici- $12.50/hour will make private use of that ‘Knowing you, it must be an pality as a building with her- space, once the work is done. old thing.’ When he saw the in- itage interest,” she adds. *Priority will be given to those with a post-secondary edu- They bought it last year from side part though, he wanted to The former general store is cation. the previous owner, Réal Cha- be part of the project. The located next to St. Philip’s An- Applicants Please send your resumé to must be pados. The house part was in- beams of the frame are still glican Church, another heritage [email protected] by June 14, 2019. between habited for years but the very sturdy. It’s impressive. It building. The church belongs 15 and 30 years of age former store section has been is a venture for the fall and to the town of Port Daniel-Gas- vacant since the Clair de lune winter seasons. It might take a cons and can be visited in the The Gaspé Spec 208-B Gérard D. Levesque Blvd., New Carlisle, QC, G0C 1Z0 bar closed. A large storage couple of years before we fin- summer. 418.752.5400 | thegaspespec.com | [email protected] Drainville to run for the Green party Cynthia Dow else at the federal level is tak- ing it seriously. Even the NDP GASPÉ: - Dennis Drainville does not have significant tar- is running for election, but this gets (to reduce greenhouse time it is not for the NDP. He’s gases) in mind, probably be- throwing his hat into the ring cause of their links with at the fall federal election for unions in the auto, petroleum the Green Party of Canada. and other industries.” “We are starting from zero The former Anglican here, but big challenges have Bishop for the Diocese of never scared me,” he told Quebec has known Elizabeth SPEC. May, the Green Party leader, Mr Drainville actually for some years. She occasion- started his political life as a ally visited him and his wife, Liberal, running in 1977 in the the Rev. Cynthia Patterson, at Ontario provincial election. their home in Quebec City. Then from 1989 to 2015, he They share many values in was a staunch supporter of the common, including the impor- NDP, running successfully tance of civil debate in the under Bob Rae in Ontario. House of Commons: “Parlia- Having lived on the Coast for ment is a place for opinions to some 25 years now, he was a Dennis Drainville will run for the Green Party in the up-coming federal election. be put forward and debated se- candidate for the NDP here in riously. It should be polite and 1997, garnering just under 700 of room for discent within the brought him into the Green which every other political civil. Elizabeth May never votes. NDP and the compelling real- fold. “Climate change is the issue now has to be consid- Disenchantment with lack ity of the climate crisis have over-arching reality within ered,” he told SPEC. “No one Cont'd on page 12 News Pieridae abandons Gaspésia project briefs Nelson Sergerie GASPÉ: - After having an- nounced receiving permits to make seismic surveys on the Gaspésia property south of the Réserve faunique de Matane and Parc de la Gaspésie, Pieri- dae does a turnabout and aban- dons the project. In a letter to the Comités de suivi des travaux en Gaspésie on May 7, 2019, the company wrote that it held “33 licences in the Gaspé Peninsula and Lower-Saint-Laurence regions, however, following a decision by the board of directors, Pieri- dae sent the ministry a request to abandon some of its li- cences.” Photo: N. Sergerie In addition to the Gaspésia Steve Horth project, the Le Ber, Corte Real, Haldimand 4 site. Gastonguay and Edgar projects Photo: N. Sergerie Commerce: More flexibility are being abandoned in addi- tion to those in the Lower- in March. The vice-president, carbons, the company believes required in Gaspé Saint-Lawrence. Martin Bélanger, emphasized that it would be very difficult Nelson Sergerie Pieridae will keep only the before announcing the aban- to operate the Haldimand site donment of the licences that in Gaspé. GASPÉ: - Business people from Gaspé are asking the municipal Bourque projects near Mur- they only received them after “It’s our interpretation. We administration for more flexibility in the application of com- dochville, Gaspé with more than a year of waiting. had to take a write-down in the merce regulations. Haldimand and Tar Point as “Honestly, we were sur- financial statements at the end Approximately 30 merchants exchanged business develop- well as Matapedia in the prised. We almost forgot we of the year because our audi- ment ideas at a meeting in the York sector of Gaspé on April 24. Causapscal region. made this request,” he says. tors indicated that with their in- The initiator of the evening, Steve Horth, owner of the “The reality of new legisla- In the fall of 2017, the pro- terpretation of the regulations, Locksmithing Clef d'Or, did not want to focus on the initiatives tion and regulatory obligations, posal to conduct surveys raised we would not be able to oper- made in the past by the municipal authorities, but wanted to look coupled with the climate of po- a public outcry from elected ate the reservoir in Haldimand, at the future in a positive way. litical uncertainty, does not officials, hunters and environ- says Mr. Bélanger. We are in The businessman launched his plan in January and met with allow the company to believe mentalists. discussions with the govern- some 140 merchants from the municipality. It culminated in this that it is possible to pursue con- currently with all of its licences ment to find out what the next meeting where only the business owners and the Gaspé Cham- Bourque step is in Haldimand, but at this ber of Commerce and Tourism were invited. “I felt there was a for the activities then projected The company has no plan to point it will be very difficult to need,” says Steve Horth. in the near future. We will focus our efforts on the re- carry out work on its Bourque move the project forward.” Adapting to the needs tained licences,” adds the com- site near Murdochville this The regulations on hydro- pany in its letter to the year. “We are patient. We’re carbons ensure that oil drilling looking at what’s happening is prohibited in urban perime- The proponent uses the example of Premier François members of the monitoring with Cuda. They started the ters and in a zone of one kilo- Legault, who argues that programs must adapt to entrepreneurs. committees. next steps in Galt. Galt and metre around it. It is forbidden “We have needs that are not always the same. Could we read be- The company will soon Bourque are very similar,” says to drill within 300 metres of a tween the lines sometimes and say, ‘ok, it makes sense what you hold the first meeting of the Bélanger. house. want to do.’ I really want an overview of the business people of three monitoring committees The next step in Bourque The former Liberal Minis- Gaspé,” says Mr. Horth. A second exchange evening is organized and will announce its projects would be a production lease, ter, Pierre Moreau, always for the Rivière-au-Renard sector. The full report of these meet- in Gaspé Peninsula. “but we’re waiting to see what maintained that since the proj- ings will be unveiled later. A licence kind of results Cuda will have ect was only at the exploration “virtually forgotten” with their wells.” stage, the company could not Pieridae received permis- hope for a form of compensa- Haldimand VIA Rail sion from the Quebec govern- tion, unlike Anticosti, which ment to conduct seismic By choosing to comply was in the process of exploita- wants to return to the Coast surveys of its Gaspésia project with the regulations on hydro- tion. Nelson Sergerie The GASPÉ - VIA Rail reiterates once again its intention to re- Percé: a wharf of resistance turn to the Gaspé Peninsula once the railway is repaired. At its annual general meeting on May 28 in Montreal, the pub- Nelson Sergerie lic corporation reassured the stakeholders who questioned the car- PERCÉ: - The wharf in Percé survived the winter and the infrastructure will require only minor work rier about its future intentions on the Matapedia-Gaspé route.
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