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(Clockwise from upper left) Liberal incumbent Marie-France Lalonde, Conservative candidate Mary-Elsie Wolfe, Green Party candidate Michael Hartnett and NDP candidate Jessica Joanis.

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Decision time 2021

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star With less than a week left in the federal election campaign, many area residents remain undecided on who they plan to vote for.

Despite the fact that the Liberals are now trailing in the polls, local Liberal incumbent Marie-France Lalonde remains a heavy favourite to get re-elected to her second term in office.

Lalonde first entered politics in 2014 when she successfully ran to replace Phil McNeely as the local provincial member of parliament. In June 2016, she was appointed to Cabinet as the Minister of Government and Consumer Services and the Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs. In January 2017, she was moved to the position of Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

After getting re-elected in June 2018, Lalonde decided to seek the local nomination in the 2019 federal election. She won the seat by more than 21,000 votes, gaining the support of more than 54.27 per cent of eligible ballots.

In March, Lalonde was appointed parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages.

Heading into Monday’s vote, she is hoping that history will keep her safe from an antiTrudeau vote. The riding has been Liberal federally for 36 out of the past 50 years. The only exceptions are when Jean Piggot held the seat for the Conservatives from 1976-1979; when Barry Turner served from 1986-1988; and when Royal Galipeau held the seat from 2006 to 2015.

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COMMUNITY BRIEFS Orléans North residents angry and frustrated over LRT construction noise ORLÉANS – Residents living near the LRT construction along Hwy, 174 are upset and angry over the amount of noise the work is creating and their growing increasingly frustrated over the lack of any action to mitigate the problem. Bilberry Village resident Sharon Peeler lives right next to the construction and says the noise has kept her up for nights on end. During the summer, the work has gone on through the night for four-, five- and even six-day spans. The noise ranges from the banging of tailgates as the dump trucks drop their loads, to the constant beep, beep as the trucks and other heavy equipment as they back up from the Place d’Orléans Park and Ride to as far as Divine Infant Parish on Bilberry Drive. “The vibration and pulsating in our houses is unreal,” says Peeler. “One night they started work at 11:30 p.m. with the tailgates banging all night just 25 feet from my bedroom and house.” Peeler says she has complained several times to Ottawa city bylaw and local city councillor, Matt Luloff, and nothing has been done. For his part, Luloff says he does take the complaints seriously and has been trying to work with city staff and the contractors to mitigate the amount of noise and the number of nights the work is being done.

Ottawa Public Health increases neighbourhood vaccination opportunities ORLÉANS – Ottawa Public Health will be shifting COVID-19 community clinic capacity to increase vaccination opportunities at the neighbourhood level and meet an increasing demand for the COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccination centre at the Ruddy Family YMCA-YWCA on Centrum Boulevard is now accepting drop-ins for first and second doses, no appointments necessary, between 12:45 p.m. and 7 p.m., Tuesday to Friday, and between 9:45 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Transportation services are available to assist in getting to and from the Ruddy Family YMCA-YWCA for those who make an appointment through either ParaTranspo or Ottawa Community Transportation. For those who are not eligible for support through Para Transpo or Ottawa Community Transportation, you can request a ride with a volunteer driver through the VaxAide online form, or by calling 613-869-8221.

Drivers nabbed for speeding through Hwy 174 construction zone ORLÉANS – Ottawa Police are cracking down on drivers who fail to respect the 80km/h speed limit through the Hwy. 174 construction zone while workers are present.

During Labour Day weekend they handed out a number of speeding tickets, including several heavy fines and stunt driving charges. Among the highlighted incidents a driver was charged for going 200 km/h while road workers were present near Tenth Line Road; another driver was charged for going 153 km/h in the 80 km/h zone; a third driver was charged for speeding at 142 km/h in an 80 km/h zone on Hwy. 174 near Jeanne d’Arc Blvd.

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Canadians head to the polls this Monday, Sept. 20 Continued from page 1 The Conservatives have pinned their hopes of winning the seat back on Mary-Elsie Wolfe, the former national director of the Free Methodist Church in Canada and legislative assistant to Conservative MP Ted Falk, while NDP candidate Jessica Joanis will try to play the role of spoiler. If the recent University of Ottawa grad manages to pry enough soft Liberal votes from Lalonde, the incumbent could find herself in trouble on election night.

The Green Party will be represented on the ballot by master yachtsman and avid environmentalist Michael Hartnett.

Also appearing on the ballot will be People’s Party of Canada candidate Spencer Oklobdzija. The PPC is lead by former Conservative cabinet minister and leadership candidate Maxime Bernier. The party advocates for reducing immigration to 150,000 people per year, scrapping the Multiculturalism Act and withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord.

Among the key issues in the federal election campaign are economic recovery, climate change and health care.

Both the Liberals and the Conservatives have promised to one million jobs lost to the pandemic.

Both the Liberals and the NDP want to extend their current wage and rent subsidies.

The Liberals say they will do so until “well into the fall”, while the NDP would do so until small businesses are able to “fully reopen”.

The NDP also want to introduce a $15 an hour minimum wage, rising to $20 an hour and indexed to the cost of living.

The Conservatives would create the Canada Job Surge Plan which would pay up to 50 per cent of the salary of new employees for six months following the phasing out

of the wage subsidy created by the current Liberal government.

In order to combat climate change the Liberals have pledged to bring national greenhouse gas emissions down to 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade and make Canada a net-zero country by 2050.

The Conservatives want to implement carbon border tariffs on China and other major polluters; increase the adoption of zero-emissions vehicles; introduce a retail loyalty card-like ‘carbon savings account’ for Canadians who purchase fuel; and meet the country’s emissions reduction target under the Paris Accord, which is lower than the Liberal government’s current goal.

The NDP want to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 50 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and they want to reach net-zero electricity generation by 2050. To that end, the party has vowed to end all federal subsidies for oil, gas and pipeline projects, strengthen environmental protections and retrofit all buildings in Canada by 2050.

On the subject of health care and pandemic preparedness, the NDP have promised to set up a Crown corporation

overseeing vaccine production, and establish domestic production of personal protective equipment. The Conservative platform also includes a vow to rampup domestic production capacity and research for future vaccines.

The Liberal government announced a $200 million investment in a new vaccine production facility in Mississauga last May. Once built, the plant will be able to produce between 112 and 640 million doses a year. The government is investing in similar production facilities in Montreal and Saskatoon.

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Conservative candidate hoping to repeat history STAR STAFF – It’s been 15 years since Royal Galipeau upset Liberal incumbent Marc Godbout in the 2006 General Election to become the first Conservative MP in the riding and ending an 18-year run by the Liberals. Mary-Elsie Wolfe is hoping history will repeat itself when area voters head to the polls on Monday.

In 2006, Galipeau was trailing Godbout for most of election night. It wasn’t until the advance polls were added to the total vote count that he managed to squeak past Godbout for the win.

Unlike the current situation in which the Trudeau government dissolved Parliament to seek another mandate, in 2006 the election was held after the Liberal minority government was defeated in a vote of nonconfidence. The result saw the Conservatives come to power under Stephen Harper with the smallest minority in terms of proportion of seats in Canadian history.

Local Conservatives have pinned their hopes on Wolfe who is a former national director of the Free Methodist Church in Canada and author of the Christian faithbased book Becoming His Story: Inspiring

Women to Leadership, which applies the values of Jesus to the model for leadership today.

On her campaign website, Wolfe is described as “a passionate communicator and leader”.

She is currently involved with the Mission Thrift Store in Orléans with an environmental, comMary-Elsie munity, and world Wolfe literacy emphasis.

She holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California and a Master of Divinity from the Tyndale Seminary in Toronto and is currently employed as a parliamentary assistant to Winnipeg-area MP Ted Falk.

Wolfe can communicate in both official languages. She and her husband Gary have lived in Orléans since 2017 and they have two teenage daughters together.

To learn more about the Mary-Elsie Wolfe visit maryelsiewolfe4orleans.ca.

Late start puts Green Party behind the 8-ball in Orléans STAR STAFF – It took the Green Party almost two weeks to green flag their candidate in Orléans. In the end, Michael Hartnett was given the party’s blessing to carry their flag in the riding, two weeks after the election writ had already been dropped.

The election is already the shortest allowed under the federal Elections Act at 36 days, leaving the candidate and his supporters just 22 days to get his name out there and champion the Green Party’s platform.

Hartnett is a master yachtsman and instructor with the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) who has sailed around the world over the past 20 years. His LinkedIn profile has him listed as the principal at the RYA training centre in Kingston.

Asked what the Green Party’s priority will be following the election, Hartnett said recovering from the pandemic.

“Recovery is the priority,” said Hartnett.

“Recovery from a pandemic which has changed the way we live, the ways we do business, the ways we study and the ways we interact. We want this to be a recovery that is forward thinking, which takes into account serious global issues like climate change

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Michael For the first time in Hartnett its brief history, the Green Party is being led in the federal election by someone other than Elizabeth May. Annamie Paul beat out seven other candidates to become the first black Canadian and first Jewish woman to lead a federal party.

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Anger vs apathy The result in next week’s federal election will very much depend on two competing factors – voter anger vs voter apathy.

Traditionally, an upset outcome in any election usually depends on voter turnout. The higher the voter turnout, the better for the Opposition.

People either vote for something, or against something. People who normally vote for a particular party, or government, do so as a habit and/ or a sense of civic duty. In other words, they’ve always voted Liberal, or Conservative, or NDP, and will continue to do so.

People who vote against a particular government, or party, almost always due so out of anger, or in protest. This type of voter is not attached to any particular party, and if things are going well, they likely won’t vote at all. But get them riled up and they will move heaven and earth to cast their ballot. It should also be noted that anger is a much more compelling motive for voting than force of habit.

Case in point, the voter turnout in the last provincial election which say the defeat of the Liberal government was the highest in more than a decade. In 1995, 64.41 per cent of eligible voters replaced the Liberal government of the day with an NDP majority. Four years later, the Conservatives were swept to power thanks to the second highest voter turnout in the provinces history. After the Liberals beat the Conservatives in 2003, they were returned to power in 2007, when only 52 per cent of eligible voters bothered to show up, and again in 2011 when voter turnout fell to just 48 per cent. It was only slightly higher when the Liberals won a third consecutive mandate in 2014.

In the past three federal elections that saw a change in government, voter turnout was higher than the preceding election. And more recently, a five-point jump in voter turnout helped the Conservatives upset the Liberals in Nova Scotia.

In a nutshell, high voter turnout spells trouble for the incumbents and the angrier the electorate the higher the voter turnout is, or at least that is the conventional wisdom, and there is little doubt that voters are angry at the current Liberal government. They are angry at how the Liberals have dealt with the COVID pandemic and they are angry that an election has been called at all.

But counteracting that anger is voter apathy. Despite the level of anger that is out there, we could end up seeing the lowest voter turnout in quite some time because most people have better things to do than to follow the election campaign – like seeing their kids go back to school safely, for instance.

So at the end of the day, we are either going to end up with another Liberal minority government, or a potential Conservative minority.

Which way it goes will depend on whether anger will win out over apathy, or vice versa.

Fred Sherwin, editor

Fredrick C. Sherwin, Editor & Publisher fsherwin@orleansstar.ca The Orléans Star is a bi-weekly publication distributed to 44,000 residences in Blackburn Hamlet, Orléans and Navan. The newspaper is locally owned and operated by Sherwin Publishing Inc., 745 Farmbrook Cres., Orléans, ON. Inquiries and delivery issues should be sent to info@orleansstar.ca.

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Spice up your fall by staying safe, not by spreading COVID Autumn is finally here and it seems to have median of Hwy 174 just east of Montreal Road, creeped up on us fast. Our office will be turning over I’ve been bursting with excitement! a new leaf this fall as we carve out some time to In these last few weeks, crews poured a total connect more with residents and of 187 m3 of cement on the new the neighbourhood again.

Blair Station to 174 Median Rail The little ones are heading off Bridge, connecting the existing Tim to school, the nights are colder line to the east end. Keep an and soon we’ll be seeing pumpkin Tierney eye out for installation between spice drinks and gourds galore! I Montreal and Jeanne d’Arc this hope everyone is staying safe, fall. taking time to relax or catch up Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward 11 Ottawa Public Health (OPH) with family and friends. has often stated that some people As the school year ramps up, I’d like to give a are at greater risk of getting COVID-19 because of gentle reminder to motorists to watch their speed. their work conditions. To support employers, getting As I always like to say, I have no time for speeders. vaccinated is now easier than ever; workplaces, Red flashing stop-arm-lights on school buses and community organizations, places of worship and crossing guards keep our kids safe. Speaking of other groups can now request a mobile vaccination which, Ottawa needs crossing guards! Please, if you team to administer first and second doses on-site, at can, sign up to be an adult crossing guard online at their own location.

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For more information about mobile community In other news, I am pleased to see Stage 2 clinic requests, please visit OPH’s website.

LRT construction moving along well and rail finally Let’s hope this autumn leaves a smile on all our returning to Gloucester. Shake, rattle, and rail! As faces. Spice up your fall by staying safe, not by workers have been stacking lengths of railway in the spreading COVID.

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One scribe’s unsolicited advice on how to handle the next pandemic For the past, 18 months I have a received a steady flow of emails containing comments like “they’re doing the best they can” and “I’d like to see you do better” referring to my ongoing criticism of both levels of government as well as public health officials in how they’ve handled, or should I say mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic.

So without any further ado, here is a pointby-point synopsis of how things could have been handled differently.

1) Right from the get-go, the federal government should have created a Department of COVID Response within Health Canada and partnered with the provinces in creating a database of high-risk Canadians. This could have easily been done using existing Census and Canada Pension Plan data to identify and locate seniors as well as provincial medical records in locating individuals with autoimmune and other underlying health conditions.

In creating such a database, they could have shared that information with regional health units which in turn could have partnered with grassroots organizations such as community resource centres to make sure those most at risk are taken care of.

2) I sure as heck wouldn’t have put all our eggs in one basket in developing

Up Front Fred Sherwin and procuring a vaccine as the Trudeau government did in trying to partner with the Chinese, especially when we have one of their most prominent business people sitting in detention awaiting deportation to the United States. It was the height of naiveté and set our vaccination program back by at least two months.

The Liberal government has done a passable job playing catch-up, thanks initially to the generosity of our neighbours to the south, but that doesn’t forgive them for their initial missteps.

3) Much more should have been done to protect seniors living in retirement residences. They should have been shut own to non-essential visitors as soon as reports started coming out of Kirkland, Washington, about a major outbreak at the Life Care Centre seniors home in late February 2020,

and most definitely after a similar outbreak occurred at the Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon just two weeks later.

In hindsight and looking forward, every nursing home in the country should be outfitted with a proper supply of PPEs and HAZMAT tents to be used by any visitors, including staff, to change into their PPE before entering the facility.

Consideration should also be given to establish isolation facilities for seniors exhibiting symptoms in senior care facilities. This could be done by seconding hotel space left vacant by government shutdowns.

4) While the vaccine rollout in Ontario made sense for the most part in terms of who got vaccinated first, where it failed miserably was in not involving general practitioners and local family health teams. This is perhaps my biggest criticism of how the pandemic has been handled.

No one knows their patients better than the family doctor and no one can combat vaccine hesitancy better than the family doctor. Why they weren’t made a major part of the vaccination program in Ontario and elsewhere in Canada is one of the biggest mysteries of the pandemic response.

5) The province should have been more proactive in retrofitting school HVAC

systems with adequate filtration. They’ve known since early on in the pandemic that COVID is an airborne disease more readily spread in closed environments with poor air circulation and filtration.

6) All international travelers should have to put up a $2,000-$3,000 bond when applying for a tourist visa and the money should be used to pay for their quarantine in a hotel for two weeks upon their arrival in Canada.

Finally, our political leaders and public health officials should be doing much more to promote public health initiatives in the short-term and before we’re ever faced with another pandemic. Physical education should be mandatory at all grade levels from Grade 1 to Grade 12. Tax credits should be reinstated for everything from minor sport registration to gym memberships.

And most importantly, the federal government needs to address our addiction to junk food. The most effective way to do that is to introduce a consumption tax and use the proceeds to fund a public information campaign on the importance of pursuing a healthy lifestyle to strengthening your immune system.

Taking all together, these measures would put us on a better footing to combat the next pandemic whenever that day comes.

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Residents asked for input on new east end library location Exciting News: The Ottawa Public in the community that are part of their daily, Library is looking to build another branch in weekly, and monthly routine.

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Public input will be sought in as many This week they are launching a public ways as possible, in an open and transparent engagement process that process, and will be will inform and lead to adapted to respond to the establishment of a new the changing pandemic Laura Library branch to serve realities. Further steps Dudas the growing community in will include virtual focus Orléans, Cumberland and groups with community surrounding areas. stakeholders and a Innes Ward 2 The Ottawa Public virtual open house to Library is looking to hear from residents, as report back to the community in early 2022. they determine where the most needed and Ward Office Update and wanted services would be for a new location Open Office Hours south of Innes Road.

Additionally, I am excited to announce The first step in this process is the launch that with the completion of the renovations of an online survey via the City of Ottawa’s at the Lois Kemp Arena (the Blackburn Engage Ottawa platform, Engage.Ottawa.ca. Arena) I am able to open my ward office Offered in both English and French, the once again. survey will be open until October 4.

I will continue to be holding virtual office The Ottawa Public Library is also hours, as well as offering in person services trying to gather movement data to support for residents. To ensure we are meeting decision-making regarding the location of COVID-19 restrictions, I am asking that the new branch. For this analysis of traffic residents send me an email in advance at patterns, they are asking residents of Orléans Laura.Dudas@ottawa.ca, so that we can set and the surrounding areas to highlight places up a time for us to meet safely.

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Minor football returns to east end gridirons

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star It’s been two years since the sound of crunching shoulder pads and the words “hut, hut, hut” could be heard over the football fields at Millennium Park in Orléans.

On Sept. 4, minor football returned to the east end gridiron with five games involving the Cumberland Panthers Football Club from U10 Tyke right up to U19 Midget.

The next day, the Orléans Bengals took to the field at Bilberry Park behind St. Matthew High School and not even the occasional downpour could dampen the spirits of the young players.

The minor football tackle season was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In its place, youngsters like 11-year-old Vincent Anderson were limited to tossing the ball around with their siblings or parents, or playing the latest version of the Madden NFL video game. When he found out that tackle football would be resuming this fall, he could barely contain his excitement.

“I couldn’t wait to go to practice,” said Anderson who is the starting quarterback on the Cumberland Panthers peewee team.

Although it took him a couple of plays to get rid of the

butterflies in his stomach in the team’s season opener, getting hit at a full tilt by a defender eventually did the trick.

“I got back in rhythm after I got hit at full speed,” said Anderson who lead his team to a 41-6 win over the Cornwall Wildcats.

The Panthers tyke and bantam teams also won their first games. The tykes beat the Wildcats 19-8 in a rare defensive contest at that age level, and the bantam squad beat their Cornwall counterparts 46-6.

Unfortunately, the Panthers’ mosquito team weren’t able to join their clubmates in the winning column, losing 52-18 to the Wildcats.

The Bengals had a rough opening weekend, losing all four games at Bilberry Park. The peewee team lost 54-0 to the Kanata Knights and the mosquito squad didn’t fare much better, losing 40-0 to their west end counterparts.

The Orléans Raftsmen bantam team also went down in defeat, losing 46-32 to the Knights.

Despite the opening day losses, the Bengal players were all smiles after getting to play the game they love following a two-year break.

The Panthers and Bengals were back at it again this past weekend.

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Local vision impaired golfer wins another provincial title STAR STAFF – Orléans vision impaired golfer Kevin Frost renewed his passion for golf this summer and in the process added three more titles to his growing resume.

In July, Frost won the Western Canadian Vision Impaired Golf Championships in Calgary, Alberta, which uses the Stableford scoring system that awards points based on how well you pay each hole.

A month later he won the Ontario Vision Impaired Championship in Hamilton using the same Stableford scoring system and he placed second in the low net category.

He scored a 95 on his first round and a 93 in the second round. After factoring in his 24 handicap, his low net score came out to 140, two shots off the winner.

The provincial championship also doubled as the Canadian portion of the World i-Cloud International Championship involving 58 vision impaired golfers from around the world.

The world championships uses a complicated system that rates the courses each golfer is playing on, as well as the individual golfer’s handicap.

Frost’s winning Stableford score in the provincials was good enough to place him fifth in the world event.

He will be hoping to make it three-for-three when he plays in the Brian MacLeod Nova Scotia Open in Truro, Nova Scotia this week which doubles as the Eastern Canadian championships.

Frost’s field of vision is less than eight per cent, which is like looking at the world through a straw. He started playing golf four years ago after a successful career in speed skating.

Kevin Frost with his service dog Lewis after winning the Ontario Vision Impaired Golf Championship in Hamilton last month. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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