We have major problems over at our Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, and, as your hopeful elected mayor, I’m going to be the one who is going to draw from all those in our federal and provincial governments area elected officials
My very first telephone call, if I’m elected will be to Premier Doug Ford and his minister of health, to request an in-person meeting in his office to discuss this one going dilemma – as well other programs that require his attention.
I also want to draw his attention to how our crime rate directly correlates to those who are drug addicted-users as well and alcohol abuse-general substance abuse and most importantly amongst that group of drug addicted come leaps and bounds individuals who have mental health issues associated with addiction and the reason why so very much would be accomplished in just one meeting from the get go.
So there you all have it, as described above would be the very first phone call and arranging to visit on an ASAP basis that I would be making from the mayors landline here in Thunder Bay and booking that meeting with Premier Ford and his Minister of Health and thusly as the old saying goes-killing more birds with one stone than expected".!
I’ll be looking for six hours of talk time to discuss our crumbling infrastructure, crime, drug abuse, lack of affordable housing,
Our homeless population is close to 500,
We have a lack of family physicians. There are currently 3,000 people on a waiting list for a family physician, and 1,000 individuals awaiting on yet another waiting list for affordable housing; the extreme ongoing problems with our EMS having to go code black several times a week here in the city,
I’d like to address the high tax rate we impose upon the voting public due to the loss of our pulp and paper and grain handling and sawmills due to the uncontrolled skyrocketing price of electricity under Bill Mauro's Liberal government both Dalton McGuinty and his replacement premier Kathleen Wynne.
If I am hopefully elected by you the residents of Thunder Bay to the office of mayor of Thunder Bay, I pledge I will do as I say for my actions will indeed speak louder than any of the words that I compose for your reading pleasure.
I will simply prove it all to you once I am hopefully elected on Oct. 22.
I will do as I state...and will not back down and will be representing you as all equals.
Jim Gamble,
Mayoral candidate,
Thunder Bay
