[All] Three More Unanimous Decisions Against Bill 66!

Tue Jan 15 14:18:05 EST 2019

Thanks for this Kevin! 
I've been swamped up to the eyeballs these days with issues flairing up all over the place so I really appreciate this summery.
Everyone did awesome with the Bill 66 protests by Bingmans. Lots of media attention and Twitter feeds. Great results all over.
Resolutions that oppose Bill 66 passed in Simcoe too. 
 I also saw this posted on Twitter:
BILL 66 TOWN HALL ON FEBRUARY 05, 2019Location & VenueBarrie City Hall70 Collier Street, Barrie ON, L4M 3M3Contact infoName: Dennis RizzoFacebook page: https://m.facebook.com/100499678873/posts/10157008292938874/
Environmental Defense has a petition here: https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/35658/action/1?ea.tracking.id=3gwlfw4a
New YouTube video re Bill 66 here:https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=rwNL8dHo2IQ

Lulu 

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android 

  On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 1:32 AM, Kevin Thomason<kevinthomason at mac.com> wrote:   1) Council Victories! - Congratulations to our teams of presenters and the dozens of people who came out to each Council Chambers today.  We were able to achieve unanimous motions against Bill 66 from the City of Kitchener, the City of Waterloo, and the Township of Wilmot!
There was great discussion by Councillors in each community and it is fabulous to see the strong opposition forming across Waterloo Region to Bill 66.  A clear message will certainly be sent to Queen’s Park.

2) Remaining Council Meetings - we still have three remaining municipal Council’s to work with to get motions opposing Bill 66. Two of them will be tomorrow (Tuesday, Jan 15th): 
a) City of Cambridge - Tuesday, Jan 15th 5:30pm - Cambridge City Staff have drafted a report on Bill 66 that raises concerns but needs to be a bit stronger.  Please join Stephanie Sobek-Swant from rare as she tries to persuade Cambridge Councillors to approve a motion strongly opposing Bill 66 at Cambridge City Hall Council Chambers, 46 Dickson Street, Cambridge.  You should be able to attend and still make it to the Dianne Saxe event following at 7:00pm at Kitchener City Hall.
b) Woolwich Township - Tuesday, Jan 15th 7:00pm - Woolwich Staff haven’t been able to draft a report on Bill 66 though their Council would like to pass a motion ensuring their concerns about Bill 66 are known.  The draft motion we have seen is concerning.  Please join Bob Jonkman from KW Peace as he has an encore performance again this week at the Woolwich Council Chambers, 2nd floor, 24 Church Street West, Elmira to try to get a strong motion opposing Bill 66 from Woolwich Council.
c) North Dumfries Township - Monday, Jan 21st 7:00pm - Details to be confirmed on their Staff Report and Council Meeting.
 3) Stewards of Our Future - ECO Dianne Saxe Event -  Tuesday, Jan 15th 7:00pm - We’ve sold out the main rotunda and we’ve sold out the overflow too Council Chambers at Kitchener City Hall with more than 380 people registered for this important community event.  There may be some standby tickets and even if you have a ticket be sure to come early and visit the information tables of community groups.  Look for delicious refreshments and cookies as well there will be some Bill 66 lawn signs available. 

4) Our Water, Our Future - Planning is well underway for this second speakers event to follow the overwhelming response to the Dianne Saxe evening.  Be sure to mark your calendar for Thursday, February 7th at 7:00pm, First United Church in Uptown Waterloo where we will have speakers from Walkerton and other water experts discussing Bill 66 and its potential impacts.  You can register now for free at Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/our-water-our-future-tickets-54808634100

5) Recent Press Coverage:  Kudos to the Hold The Line folks for another great media article against Bill 66, this time in the Woolwich Observer:
Woolwich Observer - Group Call on Townships to Oppose Province’s Bill 66 -  https://observerxtra.com/2019/01/10/groups-call-on-townships-to-oppose-provinces-bill-66/

6) Contact Your MPP - Thanks to GREN member Greg Mikalenko for pulling together this handy list of contact information for our local MPP’s who need to hear far more from us about our concerns on Bill 66.  Please phone, e-mail, write or drop by to visit your MPP and let them know your thoughts on Bill 66:

Congratulations again on the great resolutions and Council votes.  Let’s see what we can accomplish over the next few days against Bill 66!
Cheers,Kevin.
-------------------------------------

Kevin ThomasonVice-Chair, Grand River Environmental Network

Phone: (519) 888-0519
Mobile Phone/WhatsApp: (519) 240-1648
Twitter: @kthomason
E-mail: kevinthomason at mac.com

-----------------------------------------

How to contact MPPs, Waterloo Region and Guelph

General information about MPPs and how the legislature functions

www.ola.org/en/get-involved/contct-mpp

This site gives general information about MPPs, the Ontario Legislative Assembly (that’s the “ola” in provincial websites) and how it works, and suggestions about how to contact MPPs.  It also mentions the standing committees of the OLA, the bills they are considering, and how to register if you want to appear before them.  So far, Bill 66 is not mentioned under any of the committee postings.

Michael Harris Jr, Kitchener-Conestoga, Progressive Conservative Party

Toronto:  tel 416 326-6945, fax 416 326-6942 

Rm 434, Main Legislative Bldg, Queen’s Park M7A 1A8  

Constituency office:  Unit 3 and 4, 63 Arthur St. S., Elmira, N3B 2M6

                  Mike.harrisco at pc.ola.org

                  Tel 519 669-2090, fax 519 669-0476

Amy Fee, Kitchener South – Hespeler, Progressive Conservative Party

Toronto:  Hepburn Block, 6th floor, 80 Grosvenor, Toronto, M7A 1E9

                  Tel:  416 325-1128

Constituency:  Unit 4, 4281 King St. E., Kitchener N2P 2E9

                  Amy.fee at pc.ola.org

                  Tel 519 650-9413, fax 519 650-7006

Belinda Karahalios, Cambridge, Progressive Conservative

Toronto:  Hepburn Block, 6th floor, 80 Grosvenor St., Toronto, M7A 1E9

                  Tel. 416 325-1793

                  Belinda.karahalios at pc.ola.org

Constituency:  498 Eagle St. N., Cambridge N3H 1C2

                  Tel 519 650-2770, fax 519 650-3918

Catherine Fife, Waterloo, New Democratic Party

Toronto:  Room 154, Main Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto M7A 1A5

                  Tel 416 325-6913, fax 416 325-6942

Constituency:  Suite 220 100 Regina St. S, Waterloo N2J 4P9 (office is in City Hall Bldg)

                  For legislative issues: Cfife-QP at ndp.on.ca

                  For community issues: cfife-co at ndp.on.ca

                  Tel 519 725-3477, fax 519 725-3667 

Laura Mae Lindo, Kitchener Centre, New Democratic Party

Toronto:  Room 170, Main Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto, M7A 1A5

                  Tel 416 326-7221, fax 416 326-7217

Constituency: Suite 212, 25 Frederick St.,  Kitchener, N2H 6M8

                  For legislative issues:  LLindo-QP at ndp.on.ca

                  For community issues: LLindo at ndp.on.ca

                  Tel 519 579-5460, fax 519 579-2121

Mike Schreiner, Guelph, Green Party

Toronto:  Room 451, Main Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto M7A 1A2

                  Tel 416 325-4664, fax 416 325-4666    Mschreiner at ola.org

Constituency:  173 Woolwich St., Guelph N1H 3V4

                  Mschreiner-co at ola.org   

Tel 519 836-4190, fax 519 836-4191

Premier’s Office   Call 416 325-1941 and leave a short message re your concerns about Bill 66

_______________________________________________
All mailing list
All at gren.ca
http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/all_gren.ca

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://gren.ca/pipermail/all_gren.ca/attachments/20190115/fcb959fc/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: Untitled
URL: <http://gren.ca/pipermail/all_gren.ca/attachments/20190115/fcb959fc/attachment-0001.ksh>