Tuesday, March 20, 2007

RRC shut down update

In what should have been it's own article ....

The Recorder & Times reports the following update to the shut down of Rideau Regional Center.

In the first session of the legislature since the Hershey announcement, Sterling urged Premier Dalton McGuinty to delay the planned 2009 closure of the Rideau Regional Centre (RRC) and to approve the long-awaited hospital redevelopment.

"With 1,500 residents facing layoffs, we not only need a solid plan for Smiths Falls' future, we need action now," he said at Queen's Park.

Responding to Sterling's question in the legislature Monday, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Sandra Pupatello said the RRC closure plan is "moving ahead."

However, she said the province is working with local politicians around alternatives for the site and added "the Ontario Realty Corp. is working diligently, in terms of releasing the site, to see what can happen on that site in the future."

I guess we know where the Lib's stand ...on with the carnage !

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