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12 mars / March 12
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Susan Miller resigns school board seat
Fred Ryan
Susan Miller, who had managed to take the South Hull seat (Ward 16) on the the Western Quebec School Board from incumbent Dimitri Soudas last November, has resigned from the board of commissioners. She notified Richard Vezina, Secretary to the Board, of her decision, March 7.
Ms Miller told The Bulletin she stepped down for personal and health reasons. She has moved to Ottawa for both her health care and employment, and feels she cannot serve her constituents under these circumstances.
In her letter of resignation, she thanked the voters for the opportunity to serve them on the school board. Ms Miller had edged Mr Soudas by only a few votes. She had also run for a city council seat in Ward 2.
Susan Miller, an aggressive campaigner, stepped down from the school board last week, March 7.
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Merci M. Bureau de faire le point
Je tiens à remercier M. Bureau pour l’excellente lettre parue dans le Bulletin d’Aylmer du 20 février dernier dans laquelle il fait le point sur le rôle de son directeur de cabinet, M. Luc Bouvier.
Pour sa part, Le Droit a choisi de ne pas publier cette lettre envoyée aux médias de la région parce que M. Bureau a refusé de commenter les propos que son journaliste Patrick Duquette s’apprêtait à publier au sujet de l’influence de Luc Bouvier. (Voir lettre du rédacteur en chef, André Larocque, parue dans Le Droit, le mercredi 13 février)
Personnellement, je crois que M. Bureau est tout à fait en droit de préférer s’adresser directement aux citoyens plutôt que par l’entremise d’un journaliste. Surtout dans ce cas précis où, je suis d’accord avec M. Bureau, il semble y avoir de l’acharnement journalistique.
Lucie Rochon-Landry
Gatineau (Aylmer)
Une loi à sens unique!
La Ville a décidé de flanquer des contraventions à ceux qui mettent la neige de leur terrain sur les rues de la Ville.
Moi, je trouve que ça fait pas mal de neige que la ville pousse sur le terrain des citoyens.
Combien de fois, nous avons pelleté l’entrée de nos cours à la main ? Et que le gros camion de la ville, passe plus tard, il nous construit un muret à l’entrée de nos stationnements. Combien de fois ? Merci, faut retourné pelleter !
La population étant vieillissante prenons le cas du sexagénaire qui pellette depuis novembre, presque sans arrêt. Plusieurs gens pellettent à la main et quand même. Des gens qui ont mal au dos, des femmes enceintes et de toute âge.
Un de mes oncles est décédé un 24 décembre en pelletant, et beaucoup de gens ont des petits problèmes de cœur, c’est un exercice dangereux pour ceux à risque. Tient toi moi vieux! Une petite crise de cardiaque avec ça ? Ou peut-être une amande? Ou les deux?
Comment la Ville, peu imposé un règlement aussi découragent, déprimant et injuste ? C’est comme de la sur taxe. La ville aurait besoin de se sensibiliser un peu plus sur les problèmes de sociétés et d’environnements, l’hiver en est un. Il coûte cher à tout le monde et la ville veut en profiter.
Une loi qui devra être repensée comme il faut ! De toute façon, il manque déjà de l’espace pour toute cette neige, autant pour la ville, que pour nous, citoyens.
Christine Henri
Aylmer
Aux barricades contre le projet de loi C-10
Le gouvernement fédéral cherche à priver de subvention les productions audiovisuelles “contraires à l’ordre public” par l’introduction du projet de loi C-10 que M. Harper et son parti ont réussi à faire passer de la Chambre des communes au Sénat avant que le Globe and Mail ne découvre le pot aux roses la semaine dernière.
Je suis troublé du fait que l’argent que le fisc prélève sur mes revenus soit consenti sous forme de crédits d’impôt alloués à des productions promouvant des croyances religieuses qui n’engendrent que guerres et abus des droits de la personne depuis des millénaires. Le projet de loi C-10 contraindra-t-il ce genre de production au même type de censure ?
Quant au sexe et à la violence sous le voile desquels le projet de loi C-10 camoufle sa facilité de passage, nous avons déjà un système en place qui établit de sévères balises.
Si le projet de loi C-10 reçoit la sanction royale du Sénat, ce sera d’ici deux ans un adieu à Laflaque et à La p’tite vie, aux Bougons, aux Boys et à Bob “Elvis” Gratton… et peut-être même à Tout le monde ne parle.
Il faut absolument que meurt au feuilleton ce projet de loi rétrograde qui risque de nous ramener 60 ans en arrière. Autrement, il va nous falloir refaire la Révolution tranquille mais cette fois-ci non seulement au Québec mais dans l’ensemble du Canada.
Jules Guitard
Aylmer
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Pot holes, you hit ‘em, you suffer?
March 5 at 7:30 p.m. I hit a pot-hole with my car. Made a police report and had to get the car towed by Aylmer Collision. The pot-hole was about 3’x1’ and 8” deep. It damaged my 2 passenger tires and the rims, the rim covers, front bumper clip, and who knows what else in the front end. I called the City and they said I had to make a claim through them with an estimate. The boss at Aylmer Collision said it would be a week before they even look at it. I told the city about this and they refused to accommodate me with a rental or any other help till the claim was looked at. I explained that I had to go to my night shift job and I also had two funerals on March 5 and 6. The funeral is for my Aunt and is a 10 hour drive from here. The city wanted me to put this on my insurance. I said I only have liability and my rates will go up for something that is not my fault.
The city wants me to pay the bill first and they will reimburse me. That’s o.k. if you have a lot of money or credit cards; neither of these I have. I also had to miss a night of work for which I used a sick day. The clerk for the city told me she didn’t have all day to discuss this with me. I told her I pay my taxes and the government wants this right away but they can’t fix the roads or accommodate me. No wonder our taxes are so high; they have to fix cars, plus she said that I might have to sue the city. More tax dollars down the drain.
This story needs to be publicized so everyone is aware of how crooked and caring they are for their population.
Robert Langlois
Aylmer
Ward changes, councillors’ cooperation
Having been a candidate in Ward 3 for the last two elections, I agree with the need to re-design the electoral map for that ward. It’s way too large and very difficult to canvas.
Unfortunately, the legal challenges between two of our councillors fogs the real issue. I suspect that the unmentionable motive for it all is not so much when Mr. Riel knew about the changes but more importantly if he had anything to do with them.
As far as the North-South changes, I find them as good as anything else.
I sympathize with Aylmer-North residents who won’t get the opportunity to show their feelings towards Mr. Riel at the next election, but there is a silver lining to the new map. Aylmer-North is semi-rural, as is Lakeview Terrasse, Garden Road, Maple, Foley and Champlain Park. The fact that two wards will now have semi-rural communities should lead to better representation.
If you add the fact that Frank Thérien, councillor for Ward 1, was the strongest supporter of Aylmer-North, you have the makings of a more solid front in promoting and defending the semi-rural community.
The larger problem seems to be the choice that voters make This incident is not the first between Aylmer councillors. It would go by unnoticed were it Hull or Gatineau councillors, but when you only have three coucillors out of seventeen ( now 18 ) it does diminish any impact our councillors can have at municipal council when they are always opposing each other.
Mr. Riel was elected after promising to listen to the electorate. He has failed to do so in many instances, choosing to play politics with the Council executive rather than defend Aylmer’s interests. We have been the big loser as a result of him pursuing his own personal interests.
Hopefully, Aylmer residents will recognize the necessity to elect three councillors who share a similar view, which is to put Aylmer’s interests first.
Jerry Alary
North Aylmer
Thoughtfulness is still alive
With pleasure I write this letter. It is to record kindness and thoughtfulness rendered by persons in Aylmer. Today the man from a local drugstore delivering prescribed medication arrived as I was attempting, one stick at a time, to carry firewood from the end of my carport closer to my door. The delivery man immediately arrived gathered up several armful of firewood and placed them near the door. All this without my asking for help.
I had a similar pleasant experience several days earlier when the neighbors who plows my drive went beyond the call of duty and shoveled paths to the woodshed and to the bird feeder, filled the feeder, and, as I usually do, spread some feed near the base of the feeder for the squirrels.
I am sure other Aylmerites experience similar acts. We live in a kind, caring community.
C.E. Bate
Aylmer
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