"Injustice”
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H AWKESBURY
With an Ontario election campaign
beginning to warm up, Hawkesbury town
council is trying to draw more attention to
its “unfair” police bill.
Hawkesbury is among the Ontario
municipalities that have been protesting the
province’s cost-sharing formula, which
forces towns like Hawkesbury to foot the
entire bill for Ontario Provincial Police
services.
Taxpayers are also being urged to join the
lobbying campaign aimed at correcting what
Councillor Alain Fraser terms a “flagrant
injustice.”
At Monday’s council meeting, Councillor
Marc Tourangeau noted that politicians will
soon be seeking votes in preparation for the
Ontario provincial election that will be held
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October 6. He suggested that Hawkesbury
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Liberal M.P.P. Jean-Marc Lalonde to ask
him what he is to do about the issue.
Lalonde has already expressed sympathy.
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“He had encouraged us to do this,” Mayor
René Berthiaume said of the town’s joining
a province-wide drive to end the “obsolete”
subsidy system.
Under Section 10 of the Ontario Police
Services Act, Hawkesbury is required to pay
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100 per cent of its O.P.P. bill, which will
reach $4 million this year. However, other
municipalities in Prescott County, served by
the same detachment, receive provincial
grants to help offset one-third of their policing
expenses because they fall under a different
section of the Act.
This year, the O.P.P. is proposing to add
$446,000 to its bill, which last year was
$3,662,364.
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Fraser noted that, when faced with such a
heavy burden, the task of limiting tax
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“Section 10” municipalities. He stressed that
he was not criticizing the quality of service
provided by the O.P.P. detachment, which
he called “exceptional.” Berthiaume noted
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that the local constabulary had no control
over the bill. Town council has adopted a
resolution calling on the province to
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reimburse Hawkesbury the five per cent
increase that is related to an increase the
province has awarded the O.P.P. The motion
urges the government to use the Ontario
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increased costs associated with the recently
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than the rate of inflation over the past ten
years. While the province has suggested a
two-year pay freeze for provincial
employees, the province has negotiated a
5.075 per cent increase with the O.P.P.
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