PROVINCIAL UPDATE
Demand more from politics
Affordable, Clean, Secure, Central √ Inside Storage √ Over 600 Lockers √ Climate Controlled √ Over 100 √ 7 Days/Week Different Sizes
340 Parkdale Avenue
P
kitchissippitimes KitchissippiTimes
33 • October 2019
tough questions to those running to represent you.”
613-729-2130
www.parkdaleministorage.com
@Kitchissippi
”As your MPP, I urge you to ask
(between Wellington & Scott)
kitchissippi.com
chaos in public education under Premier Ford. In fact, by the time you read these remier Doug Ford invoked a fourwords, he may have provoked custodians, month recess for the Ontario clerical staff and education assistants Legislature on June 6, 2019, but one into a strike. sees the impact of his agenda everywhere. One can only assume that teachers’ While Premier Ford shields his unions aren’t far behind, given Premier government from view, we’ve been Ford has already referred to them as working hard to highlight the damage of “union thugs”. his government, and to demand change. Having said all that, it would be unfair In Kitchissippi, for example, to suggest that our current plight is due we’ve challenged procedural to Ford alone. After 15 years of roadblocks that have delayed Liberal government in Ontario, renovations at Elmdale a $16 billion infrastructure Public School. deficit existed in our public Our MPP office schools, and education corresponded with Elmdale workers were furious about parents and the local how they were being treated Our office is here for you with: education trustee (Erica by the Ontario Government. Braunovan) to press for change, The answer, as I’ve said Monthly Town Halls and papers were finally signed last many times, is to demand more Canvasses week. But delay has meant Elmdale’s from politics. By the time you read these Community Organizing expansion is now stalled for a further words, a federal election will be weeks, if Help Accessing Government Services year. This ham-fisted outcome is a not days, away. As your MPP, I urge you to direct result of the Ford Government’s ask tough questions to those running to approach to public education. represent you. P: 613-722-6414 / rue Catherine Fewer services for students with Are you satisfied109 withCatherine the statusSt.quo? E: JHarden-CO@ndp.on.ca Ottawa, ON K2P 0P4 MPP / Député provincial, www.joelharden.ca dyslexia, autism, and other special our children deserve something OttawaDo Centre needs. Indefensible meddling into beyond piecemeal reform? Can we the physical and health education imagine a province and a country that is curriculum that leaves queer and trans more fair, more equal and prosperous for kids vulnerable. Mandatory “online everyone? learning” in high schools that leave That’s what I’ll be thinking at the students, parents and teachers furious. ballot box this month. I hope you will be And that’s just the beginning of the too. SUBMITTED BY JOEL HARDEN MPP OTTAWA CENTRE