Paul Is Our Man on the Hill! How MP Paul Dewar Will Work to Improve Air Quality in Ottawa by Mike Lascelles to Serve Our Community Well
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How MP Paul Dewar Will Work to Improve Air Quality in Ottawa By Mike Lascelles to serve our community well. • Support the right of municipalities to protect residents wo days before the January As MP for Ottawa Centre, I will from non-essential pesticides 23 federal election, several work to • Oppose polluting technologies, Tleading Ottawa Centre like incineration, that create candidates were asked what they, • Enact a Clean Air Act that will POPs, and promote waste as our MP, would do to improve set and pursue a target that lives up reduction policies and legislation and monitor air quality in Ottawa. to our responsibilities to the Kyoto to limit unnecessary packaging The Green Party’s Deputy Leader Accord to address air pollution Clearly, air quality is an issue David Chernushenko and the • End direct and indirect supports which is of growing concern NDP’s Paul Dewar showed they for polluting fossil fuels and to residents of Ottawa Centre. are deeply concerned about this demand support for existing non- Ottawa suffered almost twice the issue by taking the time to reply. polluting renewable energy number of smog alerts in 2005 Thanks to both David and Paul. • Replace the Liberals' weak as it did in 2004. So, I will call Here’s what our new MP Paul voluntary targets with mandatory our local councillors to see what Dewar stated: caps on pollution, including we can do together to re-instate mandatory fuel efficiency standards a proper program to monitor air First off, I’d like to thank for vehicles quality in all parts of Ottawa. everyone for their support. I am • Set national standards for Paul Dewar, MP for Ottawa Centre humbled, and I will do my best environmental assessments Getting Ready for the Ottawa-Iqaluit Minor Hockey Exchange By June Creelman Street from February 8 to 14, please say hello. Most of these youngsters few weeks from now, a have never left Nunavut before group of 18 young hockey and we want to make them feel as players from Iqaluit will welcome as possible. A Two Ottawa Centre Minor Hockey Players do their bit to fundraise for the arrive as part of the Ottawa-Iqaluit Ottawa-based participants are Iqaluit exchange by helping with a bottle drive Minor Hockey exchange, supported busy fundraising so that our young by the Canada Sports Friendship visitors from Nunavut do not have WHAT’S INSIDE Exchange Program. to pay one cent while they are Amicales.........................23 Letters to the Editor........16 In preparation, host families in here. Old Ottawa South, Glebe and Old We’ve received support from Artists in OOS................16 Library Activities...............4 Ottawa East are busy arranging both the Ottawa Senators and the an exciting program of events Ottawa 67s, from First Air, and Book Review..................15 Mary P............................14 including an ‘official’ welcome from businesses active in our community such as National Bank to Ottawa by Councillor Doucet City Councillor’s Report....7 OSCA President’s Report.5 at City Hall, visits to Parliament Financial and the Ottawa Citizen. and the Canadian Museum of If you can provide support, Civilization, Winterlude adventures please contact alaindoucet@rogers. Classy Ads.....................36 School News ..........20 - 23 and, of course, lots of hockey. com (799-0201). 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