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The Oakville Be'aver, W ednesday January 18, 2006 - 9 Oakville candidates respond to quality of life question During the federal election campaign, The Oakville Beaver has asked all the candi dates to answer a specific question on a relevant issue. In today's edition, we are pub lishing responses from the Oakville candidates. This week we asked the candidates their final question: What will your party do to improve the quality of life for residents in your riding? Individuals view quality of life in different ways. Liberal m anagem ent will continue to ensure a strong economy so we can all enjoy its benefits whether through tax reductions, strong employment or well financed social programs like: · $42.1 billion to Bonnie Brown strengthen health care Liberal Party including the first local result -- the new hos pital for Oakville. · New post-secondary assistance providing -- tuition fees for first and final years. · Early learning and child care program -- 500 new, quality day care spaces in Halton The Liberal environmental plan will pro vide: · A new index to expand monitoring and reporting of air quality. · Introduction of a new fuels standard requiring within five years a five per cent renewable fuels content (for exhaust biofuels) in all gasoline and diesel fuel sold in Canada · A Great Lakes protection action plan to keep pace with development by addressing increased discharges from a higher population. The Liberal New Deal for Cities will provide: · A gas. tax rebate of $11 million for Oakville and $30 million for Halton. · $550 million in capitalized Green Municipal Funds for a broad range, of environ mentally sound infrastructure projects · Strong start program for affordable hous ing will bring $8.4 million to Halton for 120 new housing units and $1.73 million in rent supplement units. Oakville V o te s . ^ RBH 0U .1 EIIETHNzBIB LAST CALL SALE! o n s e le c te d We all want a safer commu nity, cleaner air, timely, quality health care, and a chance to take home more of our hard earned pay. These are quality of life issues in Oakville. My priorities for Oakville are clear. 1. Expedite the* transfer or sale of the DND housing prop erty, which is in disuse, to the Terence Young Town of Oakville for much Conservative needed affordable housing. Party 2. The federal strategic investment in Oakville' s Ford plant is guaranteed under a Conservative government - 4,000 jobs in our area. 3. Wait times for medical treatments will be shorter and guaranteedlind a national cancer strat egy implemented. 4. We will get the guns and shooters off the streets with 1,00(3 new RCMP officers, mandatory minimum sentences and changes for bail, parole and house arrest. 5. A new Clean Air Act will ensure the air we breathe. 6. We will reduce overall pressures on our sen iors, families, small business, students and com muters with tax reductions. 7. I will work with Oakville council and the province to bring federal investment to meet Oakville' s needs. 8. The federal gas tax funding that Oakville receives will stay in place to provide needed funds for infrastructure. Our platform, launched in Oakville last week, will bring positive change to the quality of life in Oakville. It presents a clear choice for Canadians. Join me in standing up for Canada. Fall and W inter m e r c h a n d is e H u g e S e le c tio n to c h o o s e fro m @ Sale in effect January 18' February 5, 2006. Full details in-store. ...and up, per metre or unit. Look fo r the red sale tags. FABRIC! DRAPERY! UPHOLSTERY! NOTIONS! Save up to 7 5 % Off o u r o r i g i n a l p ric e s : OPEN SUNDAYS 12-5 140 Rebecca St. OAKVILLE 844-7728 I believe that Canadians are Let's be clear, Oakville is a seeking more than the status great place to live. quo in this election. There are To make it even better, many wonderful and successful the NDP will ensure Oakville aspects to our lives as counselors have the funding Canadians, and I think we all and tools needed to main tain well-being and prosper appreciate the country we have ity for everyone. We would created and our good quality of work to: life. · Promote and encourage We have all heard that an the arts to create and sustain Tma Agrel1 ounce of prevention is worth a Laura Domsy jobs for our multi-talented pound of cure. So why do we Green Party arts community while bringing beauty and spend so little on prevention and so much on cure. It delight to Oakville residents. is time for a vision that will put in place "ounces of · Invest in transit systems so that commuters prevention" for our society. would find train travel more user-friendly and I believe that the Canadian electorate is truly residents would find it easier to travel between ready for a grander, broader vision for the future of Oakville communities by a well-served bus net Canada. We live in a* society that has accomplished work. · Attract more local businesses, so that fewer j success at the expense of people and our physical world. As a society and as a country, we are entering residents need to commute far to work. · Offer plentiful licensed day care spaces to the next phase of our development where we need to ensure mothers can do their work, safe in the restore the balance in the world around us and the knowledge that their children are being educat | dignity to the people we have neglected. ed and well cared for. To make life in Oakville better is to have a vision · Offer well-planned care for seniors, so that for balance, to address Oakville issues from a multithey can spend their retirement years in lively generational perspective, to take care of the `warts' in and comfortable surroundings. our town of Oakville, to make our air clean and free · In partnership with employers, invest in of smog days, to figure out why and how gun crimes education and training at state of the art institu are now happening in Oakville and to make it a pri tions like Sheridan College, to ensure that our ority to stop more of the same. To make life better in young people have the knowledge and skills Oakville is to not take for granted the good town we needed in the 21st century. | live in and now, to ensure it will continue and hope · Preserve the green spaces that make fully be even better for future generations. 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