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Drummond report doesn’t faze economic development minister gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca Rockland Eastern Ontario and the rest of the pro- vince.
economy.” Mel Campbell, EOWC president, expressed satisfaction with the results of the morning meeting with the minister. “I think, very positive,” Campbell said. “I’m very encouraged by the minister’s remarks. He seemed to be very upbeat.” Campbell noted that the aimof themee- ting was to alert Duguid to some possible improvements that the wardens’ caucus has in mind for the EODF. Those changes would make the fund accessible to the “mom-and-pop” type of small businesses, which have five employees or less. Right now EODF aid is available just to businesses with a minimum of 10 employees. “If you think about the situation in Eastern Ontario,” Campbell said, “how many businesses have less than 10 peo- ple?”
The gloom-and-doom predictions of an economist’s assessment for Ontario’s future do not seem to dampen the spirits of the province’s economic development and innovations minister. While in Rockland for a morning mee- ting Feb. 16 with the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC), Brad Duguid commented about what the Drummond Reportmightmeanforhisministry’sability to foster projects and programs aimed at promoting economic development in both Water protection plans put on “to do” list for local councils vision@eap.on.ca Prescott-Russell Several municipalities the Prescott- Russell region now have some extra planning work assigned to them. The focus is on protecting particular water sources in their area from contamination. Last month the provincial environment ministry approved drinking water assessment reports for the Raisin River and SouthNationRiver source protection areas. This brings to an end a major review projectoftheRaisin-SouthNationDrinking Water Source Protection Committee (RSNSPC) under the guidelines of the Clean Water Act that the Ontario Liberal government approved several years ago in the wake of the Walkerton tainted water crisis. “A lot of hard work and scientific study went into creating these assessment re- ports,” stated Claude Cousineau, RSNSPC chairman, in a news release. “Successful completion of these reports takes us to the next important step: working with our local communities to create source protec- tion planning policies that protect drinking water.” All of the assessment reports, including breakdowns by individual communities, are now available online at www.yourdrinkingwater.ca.Theyidentify protectionzonesexistingorneededaround surface water intakes and wellhead pro- tection areas around municipal wellheads that serve 100,000 people spread across 26 communities in Eastern Ontario included in the two watersheds. The reports identify drinkingwater pro- tection issues for each site and list land-use activities that could create problems with water quality now or in future. With the major assessment review done local Source Water Protection Committees (SPCs) can start working with municipalities at both the local and counties level to develop protection plan- ning policies to deal with issues raised in the report. The provincial government wants these plans finished by the end of this year, following municipal and public consultations. Colleges and universities empty out in a couple months and that means students looking for summer jobs to help with their expenses next semester. Business owners can help by getting their funding aid applications in soon to the Canada Summer Jobs program. Business applications for subsidized wages through the Canada Summer Jobs program made be done through any Ser- vice Canada Centre or online at www.servicecanada.gc.ca/csj2012. Ap- plication deadline is Feb. 29. Summer jobs program vision@eap.on.ca Prescott-Russell
“Like all ministries, we’re going to need to be creative and innovative and learn to do more with less,” Duguid said. He noted that there are several existing business development and support programs that may be either redundant or duplicate other programs. He added that the Eastern Ontario Development Fund (EODF) is not one of them. The minister indicated that there is a positive way to look at the report of bank economist DonDrummond and some of the austerity measures it proposes. “It’s an opportunity for us to do things better,” Duguid said. “We have no alterna- tive but to look at a transformation of the waywe do government. I’mvery optimistic about where Ontario is headed as an economic leader in the post-recession
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