[Advisors] news from N.S. & Ontario

[Lynda Rickard]

We have been interviewed by CHEX=TV see on line Thur Dec 16th,  Local news -
TAG funding.  They are also following up today with the libraries, and
asking our MP to comment.

Lynda Rickard, Executive Director
Technology Alliance Group for Kawartha Lakes
50 Mary St. W., (front)
LINDSAY, ON    K9V 2N6
(705) 878-9261
(800) 407-6419
Focused on Helping People

-----Original Message-----
From: advisors-admin@tc.ca [mailto:advisors-admin@tc.ca] On Behalf Of Marita
Moll
Sent: December-19-11 4:30 PM
To: advisors@tc.ca
Subject: [Advisors] news from N.S. & Ontario


Hi folks.  I heard from Eric Stackhouse in Nova Scotia.  Their organization
is writing to Peter Mackay and Eric will try to meet with Mackay over the
holidays.  But Mackay has noted before that IC doesn't see the fit with CAP
anymore -- same argument we got in our meeting with IC.  It's going to be
tough going to keep the program alive another year.  On the positive side,
N.S. has good support from their provincial partner (Economic and Rural
Development and Tourism) and strong political support at the MLA level.

I also heard from Nora Fountain who had a quick chat with Tony Clement.  She
was met with the suggestion that CAP had nothing to do with the federal
government now -- that it was all handled by libraries. Although she pointed
out to him that even his closest site was not a library site,  it was not a
situation in which she could keep pressing the point.  But she did tell him
that we (Telecommunities Canada) would be in touch to talk about the need
for a nation-wide champion. She said he was open to hearing more.  So, since
Norah has opened that door, I guess we should walk through it.

On the library issue, we need to go to any meeting with any minister and
make it clear in any letters any of us write, that the "libraries are taking
care of it" line is really misleading.  We will have to recover the
statistics we put together during the last crisis and share them around
again.  One I remember clearly was that this line of reasoning would wipe
out all sites in PEI.

Marita


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