VOCO
Red Casket Relay

(... or "How I spent my summer vacation")

Taking the "Democracy, McGuinty Style" red casket on the road across Ontario.
Red Casket Itinerary:
  • March 16, 2005: Ottawa: Dalton McGuinty
  • March 9, 2005: Queen's Park
  • February 18, 2005: 401 Blockade, Ontario/Quebec border
  • January 21, 2005: Rural Revolution 401 Blockade, Ingersoll ON
  • January 18, 2005: City of Kawartha Lakes City Hall
  • Sept. 10:
    9:00 am Windsor: Sandra Pupatello (Windsor West)
    10:30 am Windsor: Dwight Duncan (Windsor-St. Clair)
    12:00 noon Essex: Bruce Crozier (Essex)
    2:45 pm Chatham: Pat Hoy (Chatham-Kent-Essex)
    4:30 pm Wallaceberg: Maria Van Bommel (Lambton-Kent-Middlesex)
  • August 27:
    11:00 am: Michael Prue
    1:00 pm: Mike Colle
  • August 25:
    11:00 am: Ernie Parsons, 183 Front St., Belleville
    1:00 pm: John Gerretsen 303 Bagot St., Kingston
  • August 10
    Julia Munro, York North
    Greg Sorbara, Vaughn-King-Aurora
    Frank Klees, Oak Ridges
    Mario Racco, Thornhill
    David Zimmer, Willowdale
    Tony Wong, Markham
  • August 3:
    John O'Toole, Bowmanville
    Jerry Oullette, Oshawa
    Jim Flaherty, Whitby
    Wayne Arthurs, Pickering
  • July 26:
    Laurie Scott, Lindsay
  •     VOCO (Voices of Central Ontario) and its colleagues in the Ontario Deamalgamation Network have begun the "Red Casket Relay", starting in Lindsay Ontario, at the constituency office of MPP Laurie Scott (PC, Haliburton-Victoria-Brock). It is our intention to visit the constituency offices of MPPs throughout Ontario in the weeks and months ahead.

        The red casket symbolizes the death of democracy inherent in the failure of the Ontario provincial government to respect the outcome of the November 10, 2003 referendum on de-amalgamation in the City of Kawartha Lakes.

        With only a few notable exceptions, MPPs have remainded silent on Mr. McGuinty's failure to live up to his word, or to accept the democratic will of the people as expressed in the referendum on de-amalgamation. The "Red Casket Relay" invites each and every MPP who is visited by the relay to respond in writing with your comments on Mr. McGuinty's failure.
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