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[OPIRG-EVENTS] Please Post: Ottawa Smog Breakfast Wednesday June 18 at 8a.m. LEES Ave. Queensway Overpass





> Coalition says "No" to Ontario's Bill 25; "No" to Queensway Expantion;
"Yes"
> to Clean Air and "Yes" to Light Rail Expansion
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> (Ottawa):  A sidewalk café breakfast will be served to members of the
Sierra
> Club (Ottawa Group), Citizens for Healthy Communities, The City Centre
> Coalition, and the Ottawa East Community Association on the Lees Ave.
> overpass of the Queensway, just up from the Lees Transitway Station, at
8:00
> a.m. sharp on Wednesday, June 18th, 2003.

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> City Councillor Clive Doucet will be dressed in his finest French waiter
> apron and bow-tie to serve coffee and croissants with a topping of smog
and
> noise just above a Queensway rush-hour.
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> The coalition of green growth advocates is breakfasting on the overpass to
> protest Ontario's Bill 25 which would exempt the provincial government
from
> environmental assessment requirements on highway corridors and allow them
to
> widen the 417 unilaterally.  The coalition wants the Province to back off
on
> plans to widen the Queensway downtown and get behind expansion of light
rail
> as a solution to air quality problems.
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> "I'm proud to serve breakfast for community activists but wish to warn all
> participants that there is very little room on the overpass sidewalk so
> please exercise appropriate caution," notes Councillor Clive Doucet.
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> "Why host the smog breakfast here?" asks Pierre Johnson, President of the
> Ottawa East Community Association. "Because Ottawa East is where the
choice
> between Smart Growth or smog growth will be most visible.  It is ground
zero
> for smog growth, where the Alta Vista Corridor and Queensway Expansion
road
> projects would meet."
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> for more information:
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> Councillor Clive Doucet, Capital Ward
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> 580-2487
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> www.clivedoucet.com
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> Pierre Johnson, President, Ottawa East Community Association
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> 234-1151
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> www.ottawaeast.ca
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