ODA Action Tip April 13, 2002 More Details on the May 2, 2002 Provincial By-Elections In Nipissing and Peel-Dufferin-Grey-Wellington

SUMMARY To help you and your organization help raise the ODA issue in the May 2 Peel and North Bay area by-elections, here is some information on our new ODA by-election pamphlet, how you can get involved even if you live in Toronto, the names of the candidates, the schedule for all-candidates' debates, and questions you might wish to ask the candidates. we will send out more information when we receive it. Please send this information to your organization's offices in those ridings and get them involved. OUR NEW BY-ELECTION PAMPHLET You can now download our brand-new ODA by-election pamphlet from our web site at: ODA Committee By-Election Pamphlet download as Word doc dowload as RTF file If you live in or near one of the two ridings where a by-election will be held, please print up and hand out copies of this by-election pamphlet to members of the public. Take it to all-candidates' debates and give it out there. You can also email it to people you know in those ridings and to the media. If you are part of a province-wide community organization, please contact your local offices in or near those ridings and get them to print up and distribute this leaflet. If instead of visiting our website, you would rather have us email you the text of the pamphlet, send your request to: oda@odacommittee.net HOW PEOPLE IN TORONTO CAN HELP If you live in the greater Toronto area, and would like to help us raise the ODA issue in the Peel area by-election campaign, where incoming premier Ernie Eves is running, we need your help. To offer your assistance, please contact: Eddie Rice eddierice@hotmail.com (416) 229-9790 We are especially eager to organize folks to carpool together to go to all-candidates debates in the Peel riding. WHO IS RUNNING? Here are the names of the candidates in each riding for the three major parties, and the contact information we have. We do not have all contact information for each candidate as of now. Feel free to check our website at www.odacommittee.net, which we will try to update if more information comes in: DUFFERIN-PEEL-GREY-WELLINGTON Conservatives: Ernie Eves 163 First Street Orangeville ON L9W 3J8 (phone) 519-941-1255 toll-free: 1-866-225-3837 email: Ernie@ErnieEves.com URL: www.ErnieEves.com Liberals: JOSH MATLOW 199 Broadway Orangeville, ON L9W 1K2 (Phone) (519)941-2366 Toll-free: 1-877-304-4413 Paul Ruffolo, Campaign Manager NDP: Doug Wilcox (Phone) 519-938-8908 NIPISSING Conservativess: Al McDonald 1333 Fisher St. (Phone) 705-840-5403 fax: 705-840-1707 Liberals: George Maroosis 391 Wyld St. North Bay, ON P1B 1Z3 Phone 705-495-0990 fax: 705-495-0990 email: maroosis@nipissingliberal.on.ca George Lowe, Campaign Manager Website: http://www.nipissingliberal.on.ca NDP: Wendy Young 236 Algonquin Ave. (Phone) 705-495-1333 fax: 705-495-1661 email: nipissingndpbyelection@bellnet.ca Website: http://www.nblabourc.org/ndp/ ALL-CANDIDATES' DEBATES PEEL RIDING Monday, April 22nd at 7:30 p.m. at the Agricultural Fairgrounds Banquet Hall. For further information call the Greater Dufferin Area Chamber of Commerce at: 519-941-0490 NIPISSING so far: tentative dates 1. Chamber of Commerce's all-candidates debate Tuesday, April 23rd Clarion Pinewood Park Resort (one bus goes out there once an hour) 2. DIA April 15th The Legion 3. North Bay Network for Social Action all-candidates meeting on social justice issues Thursday April 25 at 7 pm Anishnabe Friendship Centre 980 Cassells St. upstairs QUESTIONS FOR BY-ELECTION Whether you encounter a candidate at an all-candidates' meeting or other public event or location, you should raise the ODA issue. Here are questions you might consider asking: Back in 1995, Mike Harris promised 1.5 million Ontarians with disabilities that a Conservative Government would pass a new law in his first term, the Ontarians with Disabilities Act, to achieve a barrier-free Ontario. He did not pass it in his first term. He finally pass a limited disability law last fall, the very last law when he was Premier. Many found it quite disappointing. His Government has left most of the law unproclaimed, so it is not in force. People with disabilities keep suffering from old barriers and new ones are still being created. (1) Do you think the Conservative Government should immediately proclaim in force all the provisions of the Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2001, and that Premier Eves should meet with the Ontarians with Disabilities Act Committee, a province-wide disability coalition whom Mike Harris refused to meet, though he was asked to meet 27 different times? (2) Last fall, when the Ontarians with bilities Act bill was before the Legislature, the Conservative Government rejected almost every amendment that the disability community proposed to strengthen this legislation. The NDP and Liberals each supported all the amendments that the disability community supported.If you are elected, will you support amendments to the bill now to strengthen it? Let us know what you can do! ODA Committee By-Election FACTSHEET download as Word doc dowload as RTF file

 

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