r i", vviiiLUy riuu rit, vvutnitbudY, %_JuLuu*s g. WWQ This (and similar ads over the next 4 wks) are the only literature you will receive f or Doug Anderson. No clutter in your mailbox! No signs.ý A fter the election please recyCie thIS page along with your ne wspapers Are you ...Cynical?m..Angry? ...Frustrated? about Politicians Governments, Bureaucrats Doug believes that: 1) politicians have an absolute responsibility to represent the majority wishes of their constituents!. 2) people have an absolute right to be directly invoved in govenment decisions which affect them fromthe vty beginningl Doug wiII: 1) hold regular Town Hall meetings and focus groups to hear your ideas and concerns 2) regularly survey your opinions through this newspaper 3) involve affected residents in development decisions from the earliest stages 4) encourage the formation of active ratepayers' groups 5) open up-the budget process to broad public participation Doug gets things done: 1) Doug spent 14 years working at the Whitby General Hospital including five as Chief Technologist of the laboratory. 2) In the 8 yrs he has owned the Whitby Free Press, he has made it the principal source of current community information. The Letters Vo the Editor is virtually the only forum in Whitby for dissenting opinions. 3) Doug is a former president of the Whitby Historical Society. In 1986 he was one of the leaders of the fightto keep Lynde House on its original site. He and a small group of other activists pushed the Ontario government through ail the stages of application and approval Of funding for a $28,00 feasibility study; tendering and awarding of the study contract; to completion of the first of three stages of that study; ail in under three months - a process that usually takes as many years. Town Council scuttled it ail by taking possession of Lynde House in a secret deal and moving it to Cullen Gardens. 4) In 1990, Doug saved an historic house on Dundas St. W. by f iling an appeal to the 0MB when council approvéd a 3 storey office building on the site over residents' Objections. Doug found a "buyer" for the house and persuaded'the developer to contribute $30,000 towards moving it. The office building has never been built and the site is still vacant. 5) In 1991 ,*Doug was one of only a handful of people across Canada who took concrete action against the GST. Over the following year and a half, the Whitby Free Press publicly withheld close to $40,000 from the Mulroney government. 6) In 1993-94, Doug helped draft the petitions to have the Downtown BIA tax put in abeyance. When council tumed a rdeaf ear, he proposed and drafted a joint questionnaire on the future of the downtown area. The results provided a good. bluPeprint for the future of Downtown Whitby, but several members of council deiiberately twisted the numbers to justify their own inflexibility. Recently he has withheld the BIA levy on his business tax in protest against what he considers the illegal approval of the BIA budget for 1994. 7) Within the last month, Doug has launched Durham Business News, a new business newspaper for all of Durham Region. The first issue will be distributed the first week in November. 8) Doug is a co-founder of ROAD 1presentative cmaountable DOYJG.À R ocati EGhONAL COUNCIL authorized by the cFO for the Doug Anderson campaign.