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October 17, 2024
Vol. 12 No. 41
CAPP protests Ford campaign fundraiser at Catered Affairs
by Brandon Mayer An Ontario PC Party fundraiser held on October 11 at Catered Affairs in Kemptville drew what the Party likely felt was “the wrong kind of crowd”. The location of the fundraiser remained undisclosed, although it was soon discovered. Also in attendance was local MPP Steve Clark at the fundraiser, which reportedly cost $1,000 per plate to attend. The local group CAPP (Coalition Against the Proposed Prison) launched a “Where’s Doug” campaign to highlight the secret nature of the fundraiser ’s location, endeavoring to find the location and protest outside of it on the day in
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without a hitch. CAPP has been rallying for a reversal of an August 2020 announcement by the Ford government that a provincial jail would be built on the former land of the Kemptville College. A news release from CAPP summarizes the issue: “Supporters of the campaign to stop the Kemptville prison are fighting to halt the facility from being built on the 178-acre property that includes prime agricultural land and existing farm buildings purposely being left idled by the province, a floodplain slated to be paved over for the project, as well as a Rideau River watershed creek and a number of at-risk species that would
question. The group did indeed find the location and staged a rally, urging the government to cancel the prison and save farmland. Members of the group distributed copies of a new report that they claim exposes the negative environmental impacts of the prison plan, with the aim of handing copies direct to Premier Ford and MPP Clark. “This prison does not belong in Kemptville in a time of food insecurity and climate catastrophe or in any backyard given the proven and costly failures of imprisonment,” CAPP said in a news release. “It needs to be stopped.” The fundraiser ran from 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, and appeared to go off
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be harmed if the plan moves forward.” In February of this year, an application for a judicial review of the jail plan was rejected on the basis that CAPP and another organization – the Jail Opposition Group (JOG) – waited too long to take the judicial route, instead spending two years rallying public support and attempting to run an anti-jail candidate for Mayor in the 2022 municipal election. Despite the setback, the group carries on fighting and seeking opportunities to make their voices heard, such as in last week’s protest.
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