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House Hansard - 128

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 16, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 128 - Nov/16/22
Mr. Marcus Powlowski (Thunder Bay—Rainy River, Lib.)
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Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago, we here in Ontario had our municipal elections. I rise today in order to thank all of the outgoing but also the incoming municipal leaders. In my riding, I have 11 municipalities and 11 first nations, so I cannot name them all, but I would like to mention a few people who have decided not to run after years of service to their community, namely Dennis Brown, who served as mayor in Atikokan for 24 years, and also two other mayors, June Caul in Fort Frances and Bill Mauro in Thunder Bay, who decided not to run again, as did Chief Peter Collins of Fort William First Nation. I would like to thank them all. Having worked with them for a number of years, I think they were all really excellent. I could call them and it did not matter if it was an evening or if it was on a weekend. They were always there for their communities. I am sad not to be working with them any further, but I look forward to working with a whole bunch of new people. To them, I say to keep their phones on and in their pockets because I could be calling them at any time.
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