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Petition
Presented April 2, 2009
Long Island Causeway
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MR. SPEAKER: The
hon. the Member for the District of Port de Grave.
MR. BUTLER: Thank
you, Mr. Speaker.
Seeing today was a day of
making history, maybe, just maybe, with this petition I
might make history once again.
Mr. Speaker, I want to
stand today and present another petition on behalf of
the residents of Long Island with regards to the Long
Island causeway, and to join the member for that area,
for Grand Falls-Windsor-Green Bay South, to bring
forward the concerns of the constituents of that area,
being the critic for Transportation.
Mr. Speaker, the hon.
member for that area stated, I think it was around March
30, that he has been lobbying government now for years
to try to get a good service for the people in that
particular area. I know that particular petition and
request he was making has been ever since this
government has been in, and previously to that, but
there was an announcement made back in 2003, that a
causeway would be built to Long Island.
Mr. Speaker, that is why
I am presenting these petitions, to call upon government
to reconsider their decision.
Mr. Speaker, those
people, like they said, had an excellent service for
some twenty-five years and that is all they are asking
for now. They are asking for a fixed link to the island;
and, not only that, they have asked if government would
look at providing an adequate ferry service because at
the present time, apparently, they are not receiving
that. There is some concern from parents with children
who have to travel to school, as well as business
individuals and so on.
We are calling upon
government to look at this petition, to reconsider their
decision to not proceed with the causeway. Hopefully
they will reconsider a fixed link between Long Island
and Pilley’s Island for the residents of that
particular area.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. |
