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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 • Signal -Star 25
Thompson tables motion
to save Walkerton jail
Lisa Thompson, MPP (Huron -Bruce)
tabled her first motion in the Ontario
Legislature last week in an effort to
save the Walkerton Jail.
Thompson's motion, intended to
bring light to impending closure of the
Walkerton Jail, was tabled to pressure
the McGuinty Liberals to back down
on the scheduled closure this week-
end. Thompson's motion states that
local community stakeholders roust be
consulted before any provincially
owned or leased institution can be
closed.
Last week, Thompson asked the
Minister to commit to postponing the
closure of the Walkerton and Owen
Sound jails until the promised local
community stakeholder consultations
have been completed and the
cost -benefit analysis has been released
to the community. The Minister said
point blank that the McGuinty Liberals
would not postpone the closure.
"We have to try every possible angle
to get the McGuinty Liberals to see that
closing this jail without the input of the
community is wrong," 'Rural Ontario
is already facing economic instability,
and now this Liberal government will
not commit to keeping local Jobs. ft's
very disappointing that rural Ontario
doesn't seem to matter to the
McGuinty Liberals"
The Ministry of Community Safety
and Correctional Services has slated
the jail for closure on December 4,
2011, without completing the local
community stakeholder consultations
that were promised when the closure
was announced earlier this year. Addi-
tionally, the cost -benefit analysis that
states the closure makes economic
sense has not been released. Thomp-
son assumes that as is the case with
the Sarnia Jail, no cost -benefit analysis
was done prior to announcing the
closure.
'Listening to the needs and concerra
of the cornmulty are important and it
appears as though the Liberal govern-
ment is prepared to forge ahead with
this ill-advised plan without engaging
those who will be impacted most by
this closure,,' said Thompson. 'If the
Liberals don't have a last minute
change of heart, this Saturday will be a
sad day for Walkerton and its residents,
and yet another hit to the rural Ontario
economy"
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