Monday, November 12, 2007
In Health and Environnent We Will Get Positive Results!
For the New Democratic Party in the Laurentians, recent headlines highlight several issues that affect us all, which we must commit ourselves as citizens.
The NDP supports the steps taken by the Central Council of the Laurentian CSN for his contribution to a real public debate on our health care system. As party founder of the Canadian health system, the NDP supports all initiatives that protect our gains against the judgment Chaouli, and denounced the growing presence of the private sector in our health care system.
Francis Chartrand NDP candidate in Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, in the next federal election note this topic, "The government cuts of the last ten years in our social programs, we will make the results such as lack of confidence and security for the needs of health care in this region. We all know in our families a story of horror towards the care available here, and therefore we must act urgently with a decree of labor. We can not wait just that end holidays, or accept a diversion of patients to other hospitals, in a situation of life or death. "
The NDP also underlines the attention that environmental groups focused on pollution problems in the rivière-des-Mille-Îles. The NDP supports their requests for investisment for retention basins in order to treat water before returning a river, while stressing that there Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund (MRIF), a program of infrastructures public waters available for municipalities.
The NDP will prepare and file a law on the prevention of the proliferation of blue-green algae in Parliament. The law will provide for compensation for farmers who comply with provincial laws requiring the expansion of riparian buffers to 10 meters and a ban on phosphorus in detergents for dishwashers.
The NDP will require hearings by the Standing Committees of agriculture and environment in the affected communities, beginning with Quebec. The outline of a draft bill will be supported by the launch of a public awareness campaign aimed at owners of houses and cottages at the edge of the water.
Francis Chartrand emphasizes the leadership shown by the NDP in this region by denouncing the poor infrastructure, proposing special attention on the problem of pollution in the rivière-des-Mille-Îles, and launching a campaign to demystify the 'roaming in our region as examples of the effectiveness of the NDP since the last general election in the Laurentians.
According to Mr. Chartrand with the support of municipalities, landowners and environmental organizations, farm and labor, as well as other community groups, we can achieve positive results.
# posted by Francis Chartrand @ 7:07 AM 
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