<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Indeed Lori. Mike Harris Jr’s comments were quite concerning - he went on to say that if people didn’t like what his government was doing that they would get their say at the ballot box in three and half years. I responded that he might not like what the outcome is and that Waterloo Region had gotten to where we are today through collaboration, dialog and working together between all our levels of government and communities. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He acknowledged that this works in Waterloo Region and agreed that it was essential to our success but went on to say that most other places in Ontario are just so broken it would never work and that is why his government has to take the approach that they are and how proud he was of how fast they were moving on initiatives. Again, I responded that speed and quantity of new laws being enacted might not be the best measures of success or of a great place to live but it was clear that Mike felt his job is to bring provincial policy and party dogma to Waterloo and not to take our ideas to the rest of the province. He seemed far more interested in bringing Doug Ford policies here than representing local constituents at Queen’s Park.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We also spoke about the lack of local citizen participation in consultations and open houses and how it seemed that only developers and well connected business people got notice of these few invitation-only events. I provided several recent examples and he said that he would look into it and ensure that we were included in the future (Sandra even provided a contact list of names, addresses. e-mails and phone numbers) though I have yet to hear anything further.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It was an insightful meeting and many kudos to Sandra and Susan for working hard to try to build bridges and find positive points.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As for the GREN annual membership fee’s it’s likely easiest to bring it to a GREN meeting or give it to another person to bring. Alternatively, you can always mail it to John, Greg Michalenko our treasurer, or myself.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Kevin.<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 12, 2019, at 11:42 AM, <a href="mailto:strothjkl@sympatico.ca" class="">strothjkl@sympatico.ca</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thanks very much Susan- How does one get one’s membership fees to GREN -if we bring the money to a meeting, should it be in the form of cash/cheque? If it is difficult for some of us to make it out to meetings, is there another way? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">This line,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: red;" class="">hi-lited in red</span>, is very concerning:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Meeting with Mike Harris</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> –Kevin noted our concerns with Section 10 of Bill 66 and the lack of public consultation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: red;" class="">Harris responded that the government is not required to consult. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Wow! Has this always been the case, and we’ve just been lucky that most governments in the past have consulted with the public, when things effected the public, perhaps in order to deal with issues/concerns so they don’t come up later, and possibly stall their progress with items? Or because they realized legislation involving the public is or should be a democratic process? Just wondering.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Lori S.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All <<a href="mailto:all-bounces@gren.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">all-bounces@gren.ca</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Susan Bryant<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, March 12, 2019 9:10 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>GREN <<a href="mailto:All@gren.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">All@gren.ca</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[All] Resending GREN Minutes Attachment<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hi All-<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">The attached minutes in the last message were the wrong version (though the ones in the body of the message were fine, mysteriously). Here's an attachment with the right version. Patience!!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Susan B<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">All mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:All@gren.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">All@gren.ca</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/all_gren.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/all_gren.ca</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>