A canal with no federal grant monies, an airport hub with no investors and now a cultural hub or Center?? Did not the W.S.O., have to ask for a financial bail out last year? And, The U of W. is cash strapped after increasing professor’s salaries 30% last year. Where on God’s green earth is 30 million dollars for this fantasy ‘cultural hub’ going to come from? It appears that our elected officials will attempt to paint a prettier picture than reality, when it comes to election time and saving their own jobs, benefits and pensions.
Imagine a ‘cultural hub’ in a lunch bucket town, that has lost it’s lunch. Windsor is well known, notorious even, but not for it’s culture. It is known for it’s strip bars, crime, casino, massage parlors, prostitution, numerous bars, gambling and street fights. Now, who in their right mind would imagine ‘culture’ in a city infamous for: vomit, vagrants, and violence? Windsor is well known, far and wide, as ‘Sin City North’ and it’s an embarrassment! Our glorious City of Roses licenses prostitutes, pimps and has more bars per square mile, per population density than Las Vegas and New Orleans! Windsor’s idea people, may want to rethink their marketing.
The status quo is not working, and neither is Windsor. If Windsor does not change direction, it will soon become the Flint, Michigan of Canada!
Sincerely,
Rob Cheshire
2815 Virginia Park
Windsor, On N9E 2B8
519 9
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Ward 1 candidate pushes incentives for small businesses
Ward 1 candidate pushes incentives for small businesses
BY FRANCES WILLICK, THE WINDSOR STAR AUGUST 26, 2010 8:02 PM COMMENTS (4)
A new candidate for Ward 1 says he wants to provide more opportunities for business in the area and privatize more public services.
Matt Ford, 34, has owned a small restoration business in Windsor for the past four years. Before that, he worked at Wal-Mart.
Ward said business owners are burdened by high taxes, licence fees and too much red tape.
“If you make it hard for people to open businesses and make it hard for them to stay in business, you’re not going to have businesses,” he said.
Making business a bigger priority on council will help boost the area's employment rate, he said. “Let’s put our eggs in the basket of small business and business investors,” he said. “You’re not going to create jobs by taking government money and having ribbon-cutting ceremonies.”
The candidate said he’d push for further privatization of public sector jobs, including city landscaping positions. “I’d like to see a lot more contracting out to our taxpaying businesses and citizens. If they are good enough to fund your government with their taxes, then they should have a shot at the work.”
If elected to represent Ward 1, which is bordered by Dougall Avenue, the E.C. Row Expressway and the town of LaSalle, Ford said he’d work to lower water rates, place a moratorium on construction of new subsidized housing units and rein in spending on “wacky” and “irresponsible” expenditures such as the downtown canal proposal and new police services building.
Ford’s website also promotes a voluntary 10 per cent wage reduction for councillors, the termination of benefits for councillors, and no pay increases for municipal employees.
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