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The federal government’s role in stimulating the economy of Orléans featured in an all-candidates debate Thursday morning, with disagreement over whether a federal department should be moved to the suburban riding.
Liberal candidate Andrew Leslie, believed to be the frontrunner according to a recent poll for Postmedia News by Mainstreet Research, reiterated his pledge that a Liberal government would look at moving a department from elsewhere in Ottawa out to Orléans.
The planned extension of light-rail transit would make it easier for workers from around the city to get to an office in Orléans and boost the local economy, Leslie said.
“We’ve got to feed the motor by bringing people out here,” he said.
“They’ll buy houses here. They’ll increase the value of your largest single asset.” He declined to say which department should make the move but said it should be “a big one.”
New Democrat Nancy Tremblay said she would instead advocate for a “satellite office” that would allow public servants from multiple departments to telecommute from a secure hub in Orléans.
“That will get people off the roads. That will give us more time with our families and less time in traffic.”
Conservative incumbent Royal Galipeau called the promises “pandering” but highlighted the stimulus created in the bedroom community from the construction of the Communications Security Establishment Canada in a nearby riding — on the “doorstep” of Orléans.
Leslie, Tremblay and Green candidate Raphael Morin also pledged support for increasing government funding for light rail to extend the train to a park-and-ride station at Trim Road, further east than the planned terminus at Place d’Orléans for the second phase of the LRT project
Galipeau touted his role in securing up to $1 billion in federal funding for phase 2 of the project and said while Trim Road is a natural extension of the rail line, there is not yet a fiscal framework to discuss a project that would likely figure in phase 3.
Morin promoted the Green Party’s plan to expand the Conservatives’ proposed home-renovation tax credit to improve energy efficiency and use one percentage point of the HST for green municipal infrastructure projects.
“We will unleash an army of carpenters and contractors,” he said.
The debate Thursday morning, hosted by the Orléans Chamber of Commerce, was a mostly civil affair with a few pointed shots between some of the candidates.
Tremblay said that she’d be a better representative of the riding because Leslie, a former Canadian Forces lieutenant-general who serves a senior advisor to Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, would likely be named to cabinet should the Liberals form government, just as his grandfather had.
(Leslie’s maternal grandfather, Brooke Claxton, served as minister of defence after the Second World War.)
Tremblay also pointed out that she lives in the riding —”I wasn’t parachuted in,” she said unlike either Galipeau or Leslie. Leslie owns a home in Rockcliffe and Galipeau lives in a condominium off Ogilvie Road, both in the riding of Ottawa-Vanier.
Galipeau rebuffed the allegation, saying he had long family roots in Orléans and noting that his children had played soccer in the community.
“This is where I shop. This is where I buy my bread.”
gmcgregor@ottawacitizen.com
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Liberal candidate Andrew Leslie, believed to be the frontrunner according to a recent poll for Postmedia News by Mainstreet Research, reiterated his pledge that a Liberal government would look at moving a department from elsewhere in Ottawa out to Orléans.
The planned extension of light-rail transit would make it easier for workers from around the city to get to an office in Orléans and boost the local economy, Leslie said.
“We’ve got to feed the motor by bringing people out here,” he said.
“They’ll buy houses here. They’ll increase the value of your largest single asset.” He declined to say which department should make the move but said it should be “a big one.”
New Democrat Nancy Tremblay said she would instead advocate for a “satellite office” that would allow public servants from multiple departments to telecommute from a secure hub in Orléans.
“That will get people off the roads. That will give us more time with our families and less time in traffic.”
Conservative incumbent Royal Galipeau called the promises “pandering” but highlighted the stimulus created in the bedroom community from the construction of the Communications Security Establishment Canada in a nearby riding — on the “doorstep” of Orléans.
Leslie, Tremblay and Green candidate Raphael Morin also pledged support for increasing government funding for light rail to extend the train to a park-and-ride station at Trim Road, further east than the planned terminus at Place d’Orléans for the second phase of the LRT project
Galipeau touted his role in securing up to $1 billion in federal funding for phase 2 of the project and said while Trim Road is a natural extension of the rail line, there is not yet a fiscal framework to discuss a project that would likely figure in phase 3.
Morin promoted the Green Party’s plan to expand the Conservatives’ proposed home-renovation tax credit to improve energy efficiency and use one percentage point of the HST for green municipal infrastructure projects.
“We will unleash an army of carpenters and contractors,” he said.
The debate Thursday morning, hosted by the Orléans Chamber of Commerce, was a mostly civil affair with a few pointed shots between some of the candidates.
Tremblay said that she’d be a better representative of the riding because Leslie, a former Canadian Forces lieutenant-general who serves a senior advisor to Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, would likely be named to cabinet should the Liberals form government, just as his grandfather had.
(Leslie’s maternal grandfather, Brooke Claxton, served as minister of defence after the Second World War.)
Tremblay also pointed out that she lives in the riding —”I wasn’t parachuted in,” she said unlike either Galipeau or Leslie. Leslie owns a home in Rockcliffe and Galipeau lives in a condominium off Ogilvie Road, both in the riding of Ottawa-Vanier.
Galipeau rebuffed the allegation, saying he had long family roots in Orléans and noting that his children had played soccer in the community.
“This is where I shop. This is where I buy my bread.”
gmcgregor@ottawacitizen.com
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