<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------------------------------------<div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Kevin Thomason <<a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com" class="">kevinthomason@mac.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Reminder: Bill 66 Community Group Meeting Thurs, Jan 3rd 7:00pm at CIGI</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">December 31, 2018 at 2:37:31 PM EST</span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Happy New Year!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While the holidays have been a wonderful break from Bill 66, we don’t have much time to send a strong, clear message to Premier Ford about our concerns this Bill could have on our community, farmland, green space, and natural resources. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’d like to remind you of the upcoming meeting this Thursday at the same room at CIGI as our initial community meeting. Details are as follows:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Date: Thursday, January 3, 2019</div><div class="">Time: 7:00pm</div><div class="">Location: Room A142, CIGI - Centre for International Governance and Innovation - 67 Erb Street West, Waterloo</div><div class="">Access: Through main West doors (facing Erb St) near Caroline St. Intersection</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A tentative agenda for the meeting is as follows:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- update/status of groups working to book Council delegation appearances at municipal and regional councils</div><div class="">- update/status of groups working to book MPP meetings in local ridings</div><div class="">- time for groups to meet in breakout sessions and figure out next steps/activities</div><div class="">- planning/discussion of January 12th Bill 66 training event/protest in Ajax </div><div class="">- planning/preparations for January 15th event at Kitchener City Hall with ECO Dianne Saxe and other speakers</div><div class="">- other business</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We had a tremendous turnout at our initial meeting and It will be important to have at least one delegate from each community group at this next meeting to help ensure a strong, co-ordinated response to Bill 66.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please share any questions or ideas and I hope to see you on Thursday evening.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Kevin.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">P.S. I’ve attached a draft Citizens Toolkit for Bill 66 that is coming together as groups across the province aggregate their materials and efforts. It is evolving daily and contains some good background and supporting material against Bill 66:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>