Ontario Trails News - MPP's given mandates, some includes trails, roads and cycling

Take one of our skills training courses - do trails better!

Nov 04, 2014 | Vote0   0

McGarry’s mandate: Working on road safety, advising on provincial cycling strategy

Cambridge Times

By Richard Vivian 

QUEEN'S PARK – Among MPP Kathryn McGarry’s chief duties are working to “help maintain” Ontario as a leader in North American road safety, and advising on the implementation of the province’s first cycling strategy.

Those are the first two bullet items in a letter to McGarry, made public this week, from Minister of Transport Steven Del Duca. McGarry, who is in her first term of office representing Cambridge and North Dumfries, serves as his parliamentary assistant.

"I am very excited with the mandate letter the minister of transportation has given to me,” McGarry said in a statement prepared for the Times.

“During the June election, transportation was one of the biggest issues not only across Ontario, but also in our community.”

Additional items in her mandate with the ministry include assisting with the establishment of a regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles and stretcher transportation services, as well as the development of recommendations on modernizing and regulating the intercity bus regime.

“Parliamentary assistants play a key role in delivering these priorities and have a responsibility to put our government’s plan into action,” Del Duca wrote in his letter.

Previously, mandate letters have not been made public, but the government has done so in an effort to be more transparent with residents.

Ontario Trails News - Trailwise

Weekly E-Bulletin of the Ontario Trails Council. The provincial trails association in Ontario. Week of September 4, 2014 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

• Community Trail News  • Trail Events • Member Links • User News • Surveys and Feedback

Ontario Trails Council AGM Hamilton is host to the OTC 2014 OTC AGM. We wish to thank McMaster University for acting as host. Trails Education News We have completed the complete program curriculum for the Algonquin College supported Ontario Trails Council Trail Skills and Education Program. Over the summer we have added the three final modules: Budgeting and Planning for Trails Trail Tourism Trail Risk Management These three modules have been added to the already comprehensive program of Trail Planning, Trail Stewardship, and Trail Management. NEXT COURSE - Sept. 2014 Oct. 2014 Be sure to sign up for one of these stimulating and challenging courses. Whether a staff or a volunteer you'll be surprised at what you learn, and how your trail knowledge will be enhanced. Projects Updates - National Trails Coalition (ON) This program was announced at the end of June. In total the OTC had 93 enquiries for funding. Snowmobile had 89 projects come forward and ORV 19, for a total of 201 expressions of interest. This led to 59 applications being received by non-motorized. 13 of these are mixed use, either non-motorized/snowmobile, snowmobile/ORV, non-motorized/ORV, or all 3. The total value of work on these 59 projects (without single snowmobile, or single ORV) is over $21,000,000. The project costs alone are $17,600,000. The dollars raised by the communities applying is over $10,000,000 of this and the NTC contribution is of course maxed at $2.1 million. The Ontario Review Committee has met on one occasion to reconcile receipt and acknowledgements. We are working towards September approvals and communications. The NTC also hired a National Program Facilitator - his name is Roger Pelletier. He can be reached by email at: rogpel@videotron.ca In the same time frame as we are working on all this we got an acknowledgement that the Ontario Government is not going to support the OTC.