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Justice can still work on a tight budget
Traffic study looks at proposed widening of St-Guillaume
administration of justice is within provincial jurisdiction – the maintenance of courts and the operation – but that being said, our priorities will continue. We are very supportive of victims – through the Victims Fund, our strategies with respect to encouraging young people to stay away from drugs, crime prevention, and these will continue. I am supportive of those. They are part of the process.” He also noted that the rise of cyber- crime demands that both his ministry, and the Public Safety Ministry of Vic Toews, keep revising the Criminal Code so that it remains in touch with the 21 st century. He referred to recent legislation that Toews has introduced, giving police greater power for monitoring the World Wide Web and collecting information from Internet service providers for criminal investigations into pornography and other matters. The legislation has become a source of controversy over the issue of privacy rights. “The Criminal Code is stuck in 1950s technology, and the criminals have moved beyond just telephoning each other,” Nicholson said. “They had given up sending telegrams to each other. The criminal has taken advantage of all the new technologies, and the Bill that he has before parliament ¯ and that has gained quite a bit of publicity in the last couple of weeks ¯ addresses that.”
rounded to the nearest five vehicles. The westbound through movement at the St- Pierre/St-Guillaume intersection was only one vehicle in the peak hour….the traffic volume would not have increased to the extent to modify the outcome of the recommended design.” In fifteen minutes spent there on Tuesday, February 28 at 5 p.m., seven vehicles were observed coming out of the park and ride onto St-Pierre and across St-Guillaume to the gas stations or Burton Road. Many vehicles waited minutes to turn left on St- Guillaume from Burton, St-Pierre or the MacEwen gas station. A few years ago a stop sign was erected at that intersection, causing backups on the 417 off-ramp. Taggart Miller proposes St- Guillaume and Burton roads as haul routes for their proposed waste facility in North Russell.
G REGG C HAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
C ANDICE V ETTER candice.vetter@eap.on.ca
The federal budget has yet to hit the tables at Parliament but talk of restraint on The Hill should not slow down the wheels of justice. That is the view of Canada’s Attorney-General and Justice Minister Rob Nicholson. “We are all under an obligation to make sure the taxpayers’ dollars are spent well, and that we cut back on anything extra,” said Nicholson, during a February 3 interview while attending the annual Spring Gala of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell MP Pierre Lemieux. “And so we all have a responsibility at this time with trying to assist with meeting the federal financial (ministry) commitments. So my colleague, Jim Flaherty (finance minister), has a huge responsibility inmanagingthat,butIhaveeveryconfidence that he will be able to do that, and I trust that Canadians, when they have a look at the budget, they will say it’s fair, it’s reasonable, it’s what the country needs.” But the attorney-general does not see a restraint budget as proving any obstacle to his own ministry’s goals of working with the Public Safety Ministry in maintaining the goals of Canada’s criminal justice system. “For the most part, most of the
VARS | A four-year-old transportation study is the basis of an environmental assessment regarding widening St- Guillaume Road at the intersection of Burton Road and Highway 417. Vanessa Skelton of AECOM, the Ottawa engineering firm conducting the EA, said their intent was, “…to confirm the need and to identify, develop and evaluate alternative transportation improvements for north- south links to provide an efficient connection between Highway 417 and the communities of Russell and Embrun.” The 2008 study was done, shelved, and now reopened by the United Counties of Prescott-Russell. Says Skelton, “The forecasted traffic demand within the Township of Russell for the year 2026 took into consideration the future developments planned for the area.” A local bus driver who has driven through that intersection daily for the last ten years states traffic has increased significantly in that time period. “Every day now it’s a mess. Look, see that van? The only way he can get across is if someone stops and lets him in.” The study recorded vehicles crossing St- Guillaume without turning to be zero. Says Skelton, “Traffic volumes were
photo Candice Vetter Traffic is snarled as usual at the intersection of St-Guillaume Road, Burton Road, and the 417 overpass on a Tuesday afternoon around 5 p.m.
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