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Environment takes the focus at all -candidates meeting in Bayfield
Laura Broadley
Clinton News Record
With the federal election
quickly approaching the race to
become the Huron -Bruce
Member of Parliament (MP) is
heating up.
All four candidates for the
riding attended a meeting at the
Bayfield Town Hall on Septem-
ber 22 organized by the Bayfield
Ratepayers Association.
Conservative candidate Ben
Lobb, Green candidate Jutta
Splettstoesser, Liberal candi-
date AllanThompson and NDP
candidate Gerard Creces all
tooktums answering prepared
and spontaneous questions
from the audience.
The first prepared question
touched on the Great Lakes and
what each party was doing to
mitigate the increasing risk of
micro beads, other plastics and
invasive species.
Lobb said there was unani-
mous vote passed in the House
of Commons to ban micro
beads. He also said the Con-
servative government sup-
ported numerous initiatives
with conservation authorities
and that it has invested $130
million in the shoreline of Lake
Huron since 2009 along with
projects like Teeswater-For-
mose sewer project
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government has invested $20
million to make sure Asian carp
don't enter the Great Lakes.
As a representative of the
Green Party Splettstoesser said
she is committed to responsible
watershed activities with a
renewed government role in
watershed management with
strong regulations and
programs.
Municipalities need stable
and predictable funding so it
can invest in critical infrastruc-
ture to reduce waste and con-
tamination. The government
should have better policies to
protect water resources, said
Splettstoesset
Thompson said the govem-
ment needs to reassert its role
in the environment, which he
said hasn't happened over the
last 10 years. A Liberal govem-
ment would invest $200 million
in green technology throughout
Canada, increase the protected
marine and coastal areas to 10
times what it is now, reinvest
and reopen a number of fresh-
water and ocean research pro-
grams that have disappeared or
downsized in recent years.
Before Creces could answer a
young mother briefly inter-
rupted to say she felt like she
was left out of the process. Cre-
ces expressed that he under-
stood her frustration with the
lack of access to information,
especially for young people,
before moving back to the
question.
Creces said the NDP has
been an advocate for a national
water strategy. He said his parry
stresses the need for water to be
a human right
In northern Ontario the con-
ditions for First Nations people
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is deplorable, said Creces.
The NDP will treat water as a
resource and not a commodity
by banning bulk exports of
water from all free trade agree-
ments, said Creces. The Con-
servative government's invest-
ments are "too little, too late; he
added.
An NDP government would
put more emphasis on the
Environmental Assessment
Act, which Creces said was
stripped to speed up bulk
resource extraction.
The second prepared ques-
tion was in regards to Bluewa-
ter's recent resolution opposing
the dumping of atomic waste in
the lake and whether or not the
candidate's supported it
Splettstoesser said after con-
sulting multiple stakeholders
she has come to the conclusion
that a deep geologic repository
(DGR) has too manyunknowns
and should be opposed.
Acknowledging that a DGR
is a controversial topic,
Thompson said the Liberal
Party supports nuclear power
as a safe and clean source of
energy.
If Thompson were elected
he said he would ensure that
at every step the safety of the
community would be one of
his top priorities.
Creces said it was a divisive
issue with a false sense of "for
and against': Considering the
alternatives and how the plan
takes form will be foremost.
A report was completed
confirming that a low and
intermediate waste site was
safe, said Lobb.
Talking on a side note, Lobb
revealed that one candidate
was given the prepared ques-
tions beforehand. The organ-
izer confirmed this but said it
was done by mistake.
The third question asked
candidates to discuss what
each would do to help reduce
rising municipal taxes and
debt.
After meeting with munici-
pal leaders Thomspon said
he's heard this issue come up
countless times. He said the
burden of building infrastruc-
ture like road and bridges is
enormous.
Trudeau has proposed $125
billion infrastructure program,
double what the current gov-
ernment is spending, said
Thompson.
"An infrastructure project like
this will be driven by municipal
governments. They will have
the opportunity to put forward
projects," said Thompson.
As a part of social infrastruc-
ture, affordable housing, child-
care, libraries and community
centres will help rebuild com-
munities, said Thompson.
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