A8 THE FORESTER, Wednesday, June 3, 2009

TAKING QUESTIONS: Tim Charlebois, centre, planning and operations coordinator for
PACKED: Local resident Harriet Hutchinson (standing) waits her turn to address the the OPP for both the 2010 Olympics and G8 Summit, answers a question from the audi-
panel at the G8 town hall meeting Friday night. Photo by Carlye Malchuk Dash ence as other panel members look on. Photo by Carlye Malchuk Dash

Full house at town hall meeting on G8

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on the G8 for the last eight, nine
years, and the one thing that stands
out is that in every instance the site
itself has been well protected. It’s
the communities around the site
that suffer the most,” he said.
Alphonse MacNeil, chief
superintendent with the RCMP,
replied that the ISU is planning for
security for events in surrounding
communities, not just for Deerhurst
itself.
“We are meeting with a police
services in Ontario to talk about
where we anticipate there will be
problems, and not just in Ontario,
but we can anticipate problems
right across the country,” he said,
adding there would be a distribution
of officers that would ensure “we
have all of those areas adequately
covered, including Huntsville.”
Clement added that residents
should not look to the upcoming
Italian G8 Summit in July as a direct
comparison of what Huntsville and
Muskoka is in for, noting that
summit has already been subject
to three different site locations and
three different formats.
“The context of the upcoming
G8 is different from what we are
doing,” he said.
With respect to compensation
for any loss of local business due to
the summit, Cossette noted that the
federal government has an existing
policy, but that it is amended decisions are made to keep the To contact the ISU community
each time there is a major community informed. relations group with any security-
event. The ISU distributed pamphlets related issues on the G8 Summit,
He said once the policy is with information on the summit call 1-888-446-4047, or e-mail them
finalized, the community will be as well as ways to contact the unit at G8.ISU.CommunityRelations@
made aware of what it is and how with any security concerns. ontario.ca.
to apply.
“(It) will be made very clear
to people what’s possible (and)
what’s not possible,” he said.
“Bear in mind when it comes to
compensation, (however) we
will look at it on a case-by-case
basis.
Clement told the audience that
the evening was the inaugural
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town hall meeting on the summit,
and that more public information
sessions would be held as

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banks to assess what (our future) is going to look like. standably upset about the news.
As soon as we get a path forward, and we know what “You are like a family. We have all been together
that looks like, we will be communicating that to for a long time and it’s a bit of a shock. It is really
everyone,” she said. tough.”
One longtime employee – who wished not to be The staff member said the company has not dis-
identified – said the remaining employees were told cussed severance packages with the workers, adding
Monday morning by Alexander that the plant was they still have to go through reorganization and talks
indeed closing. with their bank before any decisions about packages Women’s ‘Bluefish’
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two plants together at 9 a.m. in Huntsville and we make a final decision about Algonquin’s future as
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nently. They said they didn’t want to bring anyone “It is in everyone’s best interest to make a firm
into work if they weren’t sure they could pay them,”
the employee said.
decision quickly so we don’t have a lot of people out
there with growing anxiety. At this point we are taking
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The employee said they were told there was some
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it one day at a time and we should know more by the
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left for some staff.
“Rob said that (the company) may still need some
of us here… but within a month, it was to be over.”
Buergin said she understands how some of the
workers may think the plant is closing for good, but
adds it is still too early to say what will happen to the
company.
“We did send some team members home imme-
diately after (Monday’s announcement). Certainly
from that perspective a number of team members
would have felt the locks were going on the door. But
everyone understands processes differently. We have
tried to be as open with them as we can and certainly
didn’t want them to have continued uncertainly. They
can expect to hear from us in the next few days as to
what may come Monday morning,” she said.

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