Originally published September 4, 2018 in eNews
\nWritten by Alexandra Valcour<\/p>\n
Summer may be ending;\u00a0school may be starting up\u00a0again; pumpkin spice lattes\u00a0may be back; but rest assured\u00a0the best news is yet to come:\u00a0we are back in full force here\u00a0at the Chamber! With six\u00a0events to attend, including our\u00a0Business Excellence Awards,\u00a0and our committees all\u00a0starting back up, we could not\u00a0be more excited!<\/p>\n
The House of Commons\u00a0will be resuming on September\u00a017th; MPs will be back in\u00a0Ottawa and they will be back\u00a0to the grind. There have been\u00a0reports that Prime Minister\u00a0Trudeau may call an early\u00a0election, but equally as many\u00a0claims that these reports are\u00a0inaccurate. So,\u00a0we will simply\u00a0have\u00a0to wait\u00a0and see.\u00a0Currently,\u00a0the Canadian\u00a0federal\u00a0election is set\u00a0for October 21, 2019.\u00a0The Ontario Legislature\u00a0will resume on September\u00a024th; in the rare, month long\u00a0summer session, the newly\u00a0appointed government made\u00a0some intense decisions. Two\u00a0bills were passed during this\u00a0sitting \u2013 one to downsize\u00a0Toronto City Council and the\u00a0other had multiple changes\u00a0including back to work\u00a0legislation for York University\u00a0and the cancellation of the\u00a0green energy program. Many\u00a0other issues and changes\u00a0were introduced or discussed,\u00a0but no final decisions have\u00a0been made. An important one\u00a0of note, is the discussion on\u00a0scrapping cap and trade. This\u00a0was introduced right near\u00a0the end of the session, and\u00a0therefore will be hotly debated\u00a0when the legislature resumes\u00a0this month.<\/p>\n
In other news, the Association\u00a0of Municipalities Ontario\u00a0(AMO) had their annual\u00a0conference\u00a0in August.\u00a0This is a\u00a0meeting\u00a0of 1,900\u00a0participants from almost all\u00a0of Ontario\u2019s 444 municipal\u00a0governments, to work\u00a0together to address shared\u00a0challenges, to learn from\u00a0one another and to create\u00a0new opportunities. There\u00a0were over 70 sessions for\u00a0participants to partake in, with\u00a0topics ranging from cannabis\u00a0legislation, to disaster\u00a0preparedness, rural economic\u00a0development to Smart Cities\u00a0campaigns and much more.\u00a0For more information or to\u00a0see presentations that were\u00a0given visit the AMO website\u00a0at www.amo.on.ca\u00a0While it has been a relatively\u00a0busy and productive summer,\u00a0we anticipate and even more\u00a0productive and news worthy\u00a0fall. So, keep your eyes peeled\u00a0for all the important news.\u00a0In particular, you will want\u00a0to watch out for the next\u00a0installment of \u201cFrom the Front\u00a0Lines\u201d where the Government\u00a0Relations committee will\u00a0report back on how these\u00a0issues may affect you and\u00a0how we at the Chamber are\u00a0advocating for you and your\u00a0business through all these\u00a0changes.<\/p>\n
Until we meet\u00a0again\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Originally published September 4, 2018 in eNews Written by Alexandra Valcour Summer may be ending;\u00a0school may be starting up\u00a0again; pumpkin spice lattes\u00a0may be back; but rest assured\u00a0the best news is yet to come:\u00a0we are back in full force here\u00a0at the Chamber! With six\u00a0events to attend, including our\u00a0Business Excellence Awards,\u00a0and our committees all\u00a0starting back up, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oshawachamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oshawachamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oshawachamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oshawachamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oshawachamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oshawachamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10985,"href":"https:\/\/oshawachamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/10985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oshawachamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oshawachamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oshawachamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oshawachamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}