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Minister Duguid gets earful on UCPR goals "$56"-*5 4r/&84 GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca

“These kind of face-to-face meetings with municipal leaders help guide us (ministry) in our choices for infrastructure programs at the provincial level,” stated Duguid dur- ing the Feb. 8 session. “With flexibility built into the programs, the municipalities can choose where the (support) money should go for their priorities.” During the two-hour Wednesday meet- ing, the mayors and administration of the United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR) listed more than half a dozen regional priori- ties for economic development assistance to

all the communities and business sectors. One of the key issues on the UCPR list was the lack of fair competition for local contractors with potential projects or clients in Québec. While Ontario allows Québec contractors to bid for jobs in this province, Ontario contractors are often prevented from bidding for contracts in Québec. UCPR mayors condemned the situation, calling it both unfair to local contractors and also a drain to Ontario’s own economy because the Québec contractors working on projects here do not pay the Ontario pro-

vincial tax, and they and their workers also take the money made on the project, back to Québec where it is spent. They also noted that Ontario contractors who try to make a go in Québec also have to deal with the province’s unions that can be more aggres- sive on insisting on local hiring for local jobs. Reasonable energy costs for both work and home were also on the list of issues. All the mayors urged support of expansion of natural gas into more rural communities, to benefit both the agricultural sector and local small- and medium-sized businesses.

Ontario’s minister of Economic Develop- ment had an afternoon sit-down session with all of the mayors of Prescott-Russell. Brad Duguid got a quick and detailed run- down on what kind of help would bene- fit all of the municipalities in the United Counties.

Le Développement économique, Brad Duguid, était de passage dans la régionle mercredi 8 février. La visite avait pour but de discuter des nombreux défis auxquels les maires des Comtés unis de Prescott et Russell (CUPR) ont à faire face au sein de leur municipalité. Une des visites au programme était celle de Tuque de Broue située à Embrun. Sur la photo, on retrouve le ministre Brad Duguid (à gauche), accompagné du propriétaire de la microbrasserie, Nicolas Malboeuf, du député provincial de Glengarry-Prescott et Russell Grant Crack et du maire de la Municipalité de Russell Pierre Leroux. —photo Vicky Charbonneau ministre du

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