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Oct. 23 at 6:30 pm For more information visit: www.RootsofFreedomFestival.com 11 Thursday , O ctober 7, 2010 O A KVILLE BEA V ER w w w .o akvillebeaver .co m McLaughlin pointed out the Town already has the money to help pay for the hospital, it just isnt being spent properly. Cut the out-of-control spending, starting with the next budget, by six per cent. Thats a $300 million plus budget for capital and oper- ating expenses. There are a lot of savings in there. As I said earlier, 51 per cent of that is just salaries. There are too many middle managers, too many bureaucrats. Cut six per cent, in five years that will give us $95 mil- lion, said McLaughlin. Also, take $40 million from that recent Blink Communications sale, put that in interest earning accounts and in 2015 that should turn over more than $40 million. Thats the other component to fund this. Do not borrow because as Mr. Ray and Ms. Mulvale have pointed out the cost of borrow- ing will be way more than the initial $200 million. Ray also voiced disagreement with what he saw as the Towns excessive spending, which has left no money to pay for the hospi- tal. When his turn came to speak, Burton said there was only one way to pay for the hospi- tal without gutting local services and that is through his plan to develop new business revenues from green energy and the rental of the existing hospital lands back to the Province after the hospital vacates in 2015. Burton said these revenues would yield enough money to carry the donation from 2015 to 2045. He admitted this payment method would cost more because interest is involved. However, said this way the residents who benefit from the hospital in the future will help pay for it, instead of current residents making these payments for them. Mulvale said if she had been mayor in 2007 she would have led a campaign to get the Province to once again take hospital funding from development charges. She also said that as mayor she would not be afraid to fight the Province to bring that policy back. On the issue of TransCanadas 900- megawatt gas-fired power plant, all agreed it should not be built on the Ford-owned lands of 1500 Royal Windsor Dr. However, there was much disagreement on the effectiveness of the Towns response. An engineer, Ray said he has helped build numerous power plants in the United States. He said Canada is now seen as a great place to build power plants because of its loose envi- ronmental laws. The new technology they want to use in Oakville, they claim it is good. It is not. It is more dangerous than any of us can imagine, said Ray. This power plant is not going to help us. We are building a hospital (we can go to after) we get sick from the power plant. McLaughlin said the project should not move forward because a full environmental assessment has not been done on the propos- al. Without this assessment, he said no one can really say what the effects of the power plant on the nearby community will be. McLaughlin also asked why alternative energy such as solar or wind power could not be a substitute for the power plant. Mulvale congratulated the residents group Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA) for its efforts in fighting the power plant and chas- tised Burton for not immediately joining Oakville residents at anti-power plant rallies. Mulvale also called for a full environ- mental assessment of the power plant, stat- ing this was also the opinion of Ontarios environmental watchdog (Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller). To the cheers of the audience, Mulvale called for the power plant to be gift wrapped and sent to Nanticoke where the community actually wants it for its economy. Burton also received applause when he pointed out the power plant would be under construction right now had it not been for the interim control bylaw council passed in March of 2009, well before the Ontario Power Authority designated Oakville as the location for the power plant in September of 2009. He said council recently passed a series of amendments restricting the size of power plants across all of Oakville. Burton concluded his remarks by stating his science and evidence-based approach to dealing with the power plant is working and in his opinion it will not be built. On the issue of public transit there was much debate over whether the system is effi- cient enough. We need to look at what our cost per ride servicing is and I hear at the doors a chorus of people saying, Transit vehicles pass my house all the time that are empty. So we need to look at that, said Mulvale. The actions that have been taken over the last four years, are they the best ones, are they sustainable? Mulvale also talked about the importance of having state-of-the-art transit equip- ment, a National Transit Transportation Strategy and advocated an off peak flat fee for seniors. Burton said there are no empty bus routes in Oakville, but said some of these routes do have empty stretches at certain times. He said since Oakville moved to a grid transit system ridership on Oakville Transit has gone up 10 per cent. He also said hybrid buses were considered by council, however, staff found they are not Candidates differ on how to pay for new hospital Continued from page 1 The new technology they want to use in Oakville, they claim it is good. It is not. It is more dangerous than any of us can imagine. Mayoral candidate Raymond Ray There are too many middle managers, too many bureaucrats. Cut six per cent, in five years that will give us $95 million. Mayoral candidate John McLaughlin See Oakville page 12