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- Joh Led Lo hae aad b Si ae TP 10 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, November 17, 1992 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" THIS FARM IS A PROPOSED SIT DUM cores rip Pi---- N § PE oF o " - 4 "3 Vane Pow : i ! | CIR PEST and Zero Garbage have hired a lawyer to aid them in their fight against a proposed 7 Accountability is lacking 0 WL . RY 3 | | | 3 i \\ 1 / { of ; * d Th /} Ip. ¥ 2 5 i) Fi; : 4 y x3 x : i /} "A i reali landfill site in Scugog Township. They toured the sites recently to become more familar with the lands involved. Pictured are Willms, lawyer from Willms & Sh bage. See story for details. (from left) Joanna Willms, Sandy Kiezebrink, from PEST, John ier, Lisa Feasby, from PEST, and Bill Lishman, from Zero Gar- MPP confident Scugog will not appear on the IWA's short-list (From page 1) lawyer for more than 20 years, says he is convinced Durham is not a good place for a gabage dump at all. "If the IWA can't find a better site than these, then we'd better stop making waste." But in the meantime, the groups wait anxiously for the dooming announcement later this month. Durham East MPP Gord Mills could not determine an ex- act date for the announcement, but said he was "expecting it in the next two weeks." But Mr. Mills is confident Scugog will not appear on the shortlist. "I will be very surprised and upset if there's one up here," he said. Mr. Mills has been somewhat critical of the site selection pro- cess from the beginning. He does not believe good land should be used for a dump and instead says industrial lands should be utilized with state-of- the-art facilities. Despite his hopes, he will be attending a meeting today (No- vember 17) with all Durham MPPs to develop a communica- tions strategy concerning the upcoming announcement. Scugog Mayor Howard Hall is not as confident that a Scugog site won't appear on the short list. He believes one site will named in Scugog, Pickering and Newcastle. He chooses P1 in Pickering, as the province already owns' the land, the Laidlaw site in Newcastle because private in- dustry owns it, and one in Scu- gog just make it appear fair. Eventually the government will make a decision between the two non-Scugog sites, he says. "It's up to the government to ry decice if they want to handle garbage or the private sector handleit," he says. If the short list names a Scu- gog site, then Mayor Hall says the municipal council will get heavily involved. It has not been involved to this point, choosing to wait until the short list was released. "I couldn't see getting really wound up until we're sure there'sone in Scugog," he says. If there is one named in Scu- gog, he will suggest that Zero Garbage and PEST work to- gether collectively to fight the situation. All at Guaranteed Low Prices UNITED CARPET. 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The 24-year-old Courtice resi- dent was chosen as the upstart party's candidate for the federal riding in a five-ballot vote on November 9 in Bowmanville. He defeated five others in the preferential balloting. Mr. Smyth says the Canadian people are tired of politicians who aren't listening to the peo- ple that put themin power. "There's an accountability problem somewhere and we've gottochangethat," he says. He says his goal is to be "Dur- ham's servantin Ottawa." "If the democratic process is going to work you need some- body to represent the will of the people." Mr. Smyth believes the peo- ple have become "extremely dis- illusioned" as there has been no opportunity for them to get in- volved in the system. "Politics 1s out of control," he says. "There's no opportunity for people to express their voice." "What is happening in Dur- hamisindicative of what is hap- pening across Canada." He points to the GST as an ex- ample. Although 60 per cent of the people in Durham opposed the tax, Mr. Smyth says "the member still supported it." It is the Reform Party's com- mitment to the people and its desire to represent the people which attracted him to the par- ty. As a member of the Progres- sive Conservative's Youth Par- ty, he became disillusioned by politics and decided it was time for achange. He studied the oth- er parties and liked what he saw in the Reform movement. He Joined the partyin 1990. Although he was primarily attracted to the party because of Dr. Kevin Dunkerley * Dr. Lionel McTague 7 in politics says Reform ky Party's new candidate its commitment to the people, he says the party has many more concern8 which makes it more than a one issue party. They are also committed to ridding the debt and reducing the size of the government. As for the riding itself, Mr. Smyth says he has only begun to focus on the issues in Durham. He would not elaborate on some concerns that he was intending to address. 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