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AMANDA SIMARD CONFIRMS HER LEADERSHIP CHOICE the past two years, she has been a health ombudsman under the current Wynne Liberal government.
ONTARIO WORKS ROCKLAND LEASE The United Counties of Prescott and Russell (UCPR) will negotiate a new five-year lease agreement for the Ontario Works office in Rockland. The office is located in the Valoris Founda- tion building. Counties council accepted a recommendation from its social services committee to have the social services director negotiate a lease for office space with a 1.5 per cent increase for a five-year period. – Gregg Chamberlain 400 MILLIONS POUR LES gouvernement fédéral a annoncé un nouveau financement de 400 millions à l’appui du Plan d’action pour les langues officielles 2018-2023.. —Michel Lamy LANGUES OFFICIELLES Dans son budget 2018, le
The other three leadership candidates are Tanya Granic Allen, a parents’ rights advocate, Doug Ford, a Toronto councilor during the mayoral term of the late Robert Ford, and Caroline Mulroney, a Toronto- area lawyer and daughter of former-prime minister Brian Mulroney. She is also the PC candidate for York-Simcoe, thanks to past support from Patrick Brown. Party members begin filing their choices for the new PC leader through electronic voting this week. Confirmation and induction of the winning candidate is expected March 10, at the party’s provincial convention in Markham. Riding choices threatened Political pundits following the leadership campaign rate Allen as a “dark horse” can- didate compared to the other three. She has condemned Brown, during his leadership period, for not opposing Ontario’s present sex education curriculum in schools. During the last leadership debate held in Ottawa, March 1, Allen promised that if she wins the leadership bid, she will overturn all the PC candidate nominations made during the past two years in ridings where Brown’s favoured candidates were chosen. Allen named Carleton and Glengarry- Prescott-Russell as examples of two ridings where Brown’s choice of candidate won the local nomination. Simard won the GPR nomination for the party in 2016 after Derek Duval of Vankleek Hill was disqualified from the running, about a week before the asso- ciation’s nomination meeting. Simard dismissed Allen’s threat, saying there are no grounds to support the leadership candidate’s allegations of improprieties in the nomination process. “If she were to look into the situation,” said Simard, “I’m confident that there were no irregularities, that the proper process was followed.”
Amanda Simard ne s’inquiète pas de perdre son poste de candidate du Parti progressiste-conservateur pour Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, si Tanya Granic Allen remporte l’actuelle course à la direction du parti. Mme Allen a menacé, lors du dernier débat télévisé, de renverser toutes les nominations du PC dans les circonscriptions où le candidat préféré de l’ancien chef du parti, Patrick Brown, a été choisi. —photo d’archives
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Local PC candidate Amanda Simard thinks Christine Elliott would be the perfect choice to lead the party to victory. “Her experience, and leadership quality too, unite our party and lead us to victory,” Simard said during an interview March 5. The new leader for the Progressive Conser- vative Party of Ontario will be chosen this weekend. Simard also posted her comments and candidate choice on her campaign website. Elliott is one of four candidates vying to become the new leader of Ontario’s Pro- gressive Conservatives, after Patrick Brown stepped down to deal with allegations of sexual misconduct. Elliott is a former MPP who held the Whitby-Ajax for nine years, including time spent as the party deputy leader, before she stepped down after losing the 2015 party leadership campaign to Brown. For Former Stormont-Dundas- Glengarry MPP Noble Villeneuve passed away on Wednesday, February 28. He was 79 years old. Noble Alfred Villeneuve was born and raised on his family farm on Dyer Road in Moose Creek, where he grew up with his parents and two siblings. He worked as a real-estate appraiser and a farmer and at one point held the post of first vice- president for the Ontario Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. He served for 15 years as the Progres- sive Conservative MPP for Stormont- Dundas-Glengarry, starting in 1983 during the terms of Premier Frank Mill and later Premier Mike Harris. He held the post of ag- ricultural affairs minister with responsibility for francophone affairs from 1995 to 1999. His funeral was held on Wednesday, March 7 at 11 a.m in Moose Creek. He leaves behind his wife, Elaine, and his five children, Darlene MacGregor, Micheline Sabourin, Brian Villeneuve, Diane Kelly and Roxanne Villeneuve. —Alexia Marsillo
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L’ancien député provincial de Glengarry- Stormont-Dundas, Noble Villeneuve, est décédé le mercredi 28 février à l’âge de 79 ans. —photo d’archives
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