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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2015-10-28, Page 44 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, October 28, 2015 www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com Nuron Expositor PUBLISHED WEEKLY — EST. 1860 P.O. Box 69, 8 Main Street Seaforth Ontario NOK 1 WO phone: 519-527-0240 fax: 519-527-2858 www.seaforthhuronexpositor �p] POSTMEDIA NEIL CLIFFORD Li.LF Advertising Director neil.clifford@sunmedia.ca SHAUN GREGORY Multimedia Journalist shaun.gregory@sunmedia.ca DIANNE MCGRATH Front Office seaforth.classifieds@sunmedia.ca NANCY DEGANS Advertising Rep. nancy.degans@sunmedia.ca MARIE DAVID Group Advertising Director Grey Bruce Huron Division 519 376-2250 ext. 514301 or 510 364-2001 ext. 531024 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 YEAR $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GST) 2 YEAR $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GST) SENIORS 60 WEEKS $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GST) 120 WEEKS $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GST) Publications Mail Agreement No. 40064683 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT P.O. 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Canada Global climate deal could punish Canada prime minister -desig- nate Justin Trudeau will face one of his first major international tests at next month's United Nations' meeting on climate change in Paris. In all, 25,000 delegates — including Canada's premiers whom Trudeau plans to bring along — from 196 countries will make yet another attempt to draft a binding global agreement to fight man-made global warming. But the same fundamen- tal disagreements which scuttled a similar deal in Copenhagen in 2009 and, prior to that, produced the failed 1997 Kyoto accord, still exist. Developed nations, led by the U.S., want the develop- ing world to agree to binding targets on reducing their industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to climate change, since they produce most emissions today. But developing nations, led by China, argue demands placed upon them to reduce emissions should be less onerous than those put on the developed world, since industrialized nations like Canada have historically caused most of the emis- sions linked to man-made climate change. Another stumbling block is getting developed nations to provide a fund of $100 billion annually by 2020 to help developing nations address and mitigate the impacts of climate change. The UN says the purpose of its Paris treaty is to prevent a dangerous rise in global tem- peratures of more than two degrees Celsius compared to pre -industrial levels, before mankind started intensively burning fossil fuels for energy. Canada's target, submit- ted by the outgoing Ste- phen Harper government to the UN — reducing emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030 — is unrealistic. Trudeau refused to say what his target would be dur- ing the election, but even to meet Harper's, Canada would have to shut down the equivalent of its oil and gas sector within 15 years. That's because the Con- servatives did little to reduce emissions during their dec- ade in office, just as the pre- vious Liberal government did little for 13 years prior to that. The problem for Canada, responsible for just 1.6%n of global emissions, is that any global deal to reduce emis- sions is going to be especially financially punitive to a large, cold, industrialized, sparsely populated and resource-based country like our own. The Trudeau government should be prepared to do Canada's fair share, but not to give away our energy sov- ereignty to the UN. letters to the Editor THANK YOU! To the editor: Over the last 7years I have had the honour of serving as the Member of Parliament for Huron -Bruce and I am truly humbled to continue to work on your behalf in Ottawa. Iwantto thank the people of Huron -Bruce for their support. I also want to thank my family, friends and all the dedicated volunteers that have supported me over the years. Thankyou forgiving me the opportunity. We had a great team and this was the best campaign we've ever To the editor: For many years, the people of Seaforth and area have been most generous in contributing to the annual poppy campaign of Branch 156 of the Royal Cana- dian Legion. Funds which the public contribute are held in trust in a separate account and do not form any part of branch finances. The amount collected in the 2014 campaign was $8,619.14 with expenditures dur- ing the year totaling $11,286.57. The poppy trust is a reserve fund, which the assistance can be To the editor: "The people ofHuron-Brace shouldbe congratulatedforengaging in the democratic process in unprece- dented numbers in the Oct 19 federal election. More than 72% of eligible vot- ers castaballotinthisriding. Thatvoter turnout of 57,888 is the highest ever in Huron -Bruce. As one ofthe candi- dates in that contest, Iwasimpressed at every stage ofthe long campaign by the engagement of ordinaryvoters who were among the thousands of people I met on their doorsteps and at community events. Perhaps equally important, as afirst time candidate, I was overwhelmed bythe participation of volunteers in the electoral process. I recruited in excess of 300 people to work on my campaign: knocking on To the editor: We wish to thank all our volun- teers, and everyone who sup- ported the Van Egmond Founda- tion this year at our Country Breakfasts Ciderfest. Your ran. Over the course of the last 11 weeks we knocked on 18,000 doors, participated in 9 All -Candi- dates' debates, walked over 450 miles, made over 40,000 phone calls and put up 4,000 lawn signs. We knewwe were in for a real fight, and Iwant to congratulate the other candidates, Allan Thompson, Gerard Creces and Jutta Splettstoesser on their campaigns. Again, thank you to the voters of Huron -Bruce for your trust and support! — Ben Lobb, MP Huron -Bruce given to needy veterans and their dependants, as well as the wid- ows and children of deceased personnel. We trust local citizens will continue to lend their usual strong support to the 2015 poppy campaign by wearing a poppy and being receptive to the Legion members knocking at their door. The poppy will be held on November 1 at 1 p.m. at the Legion your donations will be appreciated — Rick Fortune Poppy Chairman Legion Branch 156 doors, delivering flyers, makingphone calls and staffing campaign offices, among other things. Despiteworking for 10 years as apolitical reportez I don't think' fully understood the role volunteers playin an election cam- paign at the riding level While lwasn t successful at the ballotbox, I cherish everymomentofmyown 18 -month campaign to be the Member of Parlia- mentforHuron-Bruce. Please allow me to extendmythanksto all those who voted and particularly to the thousands who supported me, to my hundreds ofvolunteers, to the dozens whoworkedfull-time onmybehalf and most of all, to myfamily. Together, Ithinkwe demonstrated that the dem- ocratic process is alive andwellin Canada. —Allan Thompson contribution and support is a key factor in helping to maintain our beautiful heritage home. 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