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Clement named to help premier Wynne’s transition
GREG KIELEC GREG.KIELEC@EAP.ON.CA
A city councillor and high-profile Liberal has been named to Ontario premier-des- ignate KathleenWynne’s transition team. Bernadette Clement, a two-term city councillor, wrote in reply to congratulatory Twitter messages Thursday that it was “an honour” to be chosen to the incoming pro- vincial leader’s transition team. “I am really looking forward to working with Premier-Designate Wynne’s transition team. There is some real listening going on,” she wrote. “I am really looking forward to this new experience...lots of good work ahead. This is going to be pretty cool,” she replied in two other Tweets. Clement joins some high-profile names on the transition team, including Greg Sorbara, former minister of finance and former Ontario Liberal Party campaign co- chair; David Crombie, former Member of Parliament and Mayor of Toronto; and Lyn
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Bernadette Clement
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RE/MAX CORNWALL REALTY INC. Wynne was selected the Ontario Liberal party’s new leader during a convention in Toronto on Jan. 26, defeating the widely considered favourite, Sandra Pupatello, on a third ballot. McLeod, former Leader of the Ontario Lib- eral Party and former cabinet minister.
Group wants $75,000 for university study Pictured, foreground, Tom and Gail Kaneb, along with Gerry Benson, make their pitch for funding for a feasibility study examining the creation of a new university in Cornwall at last Monday night’s city council meeting.
“We’re right up to our ears. We can’t afford it anymore,” he said. He noted the city has been a big contrib- utor to education in the city and still have seven more annual payments of $100,000 to make to St. Lawrence College for the fa- cility’s recent redesign and upgrades. The university group is hoping to utilize a largely empty Nav Centre, which has 70 classrooms, to save the province the infra- structure costs associated with building a new university. Tom Kaneb said the group has been in discussions with St. Lawrence College and the St. Lawrence River Institute to deter- mine how to build upon programs already offered by them. He said the a university is key to raising the education level in Cornwall and to re- taining the city’s youth, who often don’t re- turn to Cornwall after attending four years of university in other Ontario cities. Cornwall university would make higher education much more accessible to Corn- wall youth because it would eliminate the $10,000 to $15,000 they would have to spend to attend university outside of Corn- wall. Benson said he and his entourage have met a number of high-profile officials in the months preceding last Monday’s presenta- tion to council, including Nav Can CEO John Crichton and Conservative political heavy- weight Hugh Segal. “We went on to meet many other leaders. It’s been 11 months,” he told council.
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A group hoping to create a new university in Cornwall is looking for $75,000 from Cornwall city council to conduct a feasibil- ity study. Gerry Benson, the main mover behind the university proposal, along withTom and Gail Kaneb, pitched their plan for a Cornwall university to city council last Monday night. The feasibility study must be completed for the province to consider the idea. But at least a couple of councillors had a hard time stomaching the $75,000 funding request, especially in light of anticipated financial constraints in their yet to be final- ized 2013 city budget. Councillor Denis Thibault, noting Benson is part of the Community Action Group that has pressured city council to lower taxes, suggested the city soften the blow to the city budget by partnering up with two neighbouring governments. He suggested the city provide $30,000 of the requested funding with an equal amount from the United Counties of Stor- mont, Dundas and Glengarry. The remain- ing $15,000 should come from Akwesasne, he suggested. Thibault’s suggestion was backed up by Councillor Andre Rivette, but he insisted the money come straight from the city’s economic development budget.
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