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MPP delivers letter asking Premier to ease up on horse racing industry

MPP Bailey Hands Hiawatha Letter to Premier

  Sarnia-Lambton's MPP has asked new Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne to reverse an earlier decision he says has put some 55,000 jobs in jeopardy. Hand-delivering a letter to the Premier, MPP Bob Bailey said he is asking the Liberal government to announce prize purses and a full slate of racing at the Hiawatha Horse Park [...]

MPP urging new Premier to take another look at jail closure

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Sarnia-Lambton's Member of Provincial Parliament is asking the new Premier of Ontario to personally review a government decision that would, if unchanged, see the closure of the Sarnia Jail next year. Bob Bailey, in an open letter to Kathleen Wynne, who was elected earlier this month to lead the Liberal Party of Ontario, said he [...]

MPP hosting town hall meeting on education this Monday

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  Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey is co-hosting a community town hall this upcoming Monday afternoon (Feb. 11) to discuss proposed changes to the provincial educational system. MPP Lisa MacLeod, the Ontario Progressive Conservative education critic, will also be in attendance. The event will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion, 286 Front Street North, Sarnia, from [...]

Dunlop visits Sarnia during his “Helping Ontarians Enter Skilled Trades” Tour

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Garfield Dunlop, MPP for Simcoe North and PC Critic for Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship Reform held a press conference Wednesday to bring attention to concerns relating to skilled trades. He was joined by Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey. Bailey’s office said among the issues discussed were the apprenticeship system, compulsory certification, proposed membership fees for tradespeople [...]

MPP Bob Bailey says McGuinty Finance Minister Out To Lunch on Lambton Generating Station Conversion

Bob Bailey at Ottawa's Queen's Park

Sarnia-Lambton MPP, Bob Bailey, wonders if Dalton McGuinty’s cabinet ministers have even discussed their provincial energy plans at the cabinet table. Bailey said this after Finance Minister Dwight Duncan made a confusing and completely inaccurate presentation on the conversion of coal fueled electricity plants to natural gas. During last Thursday’s testimony to the Legislative Assembly’s Standing [...]

Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bailey and MP Davidson call for wind turbine moratorium during related health study

MPP Bob Bailey and MP Pat Davidson have united to call for a wind turbine moratorium during health study

On Thursday, Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey joined with Sarnia-Lambton MP Pat Davidson in calling for a moratorium on continued industrial wind turbine development while Health Canada conducts a study of the relationship between wind turbine noise and health effects. MPP Bailey and MP Davidson issued the call for a moratorium as Health Canada prepares to [...]

Agriculture still wrapped up in Liberal red tape: Bailey

Agriculture still wrapped up in Liberal red tape says MPP Bob Bailey

Today Sarnia-Lambton MPP, Bob Bailey, said that although it has been a year since the Ontario PC Caucus proposed a one-window approach, and slightly less since the Liberals copied the commitment, the government has done nothing to make it easier for farmers to connect with government and cut red tape. “Before the election this government [...]

Bob Bailey demands relief for ‘underutilized’, yet overcrowded Sarnia Jail

Sarnia Jail faces overcrowding at dangerous levels coupled with insufficient staff and security, MPP Bailey has demanded the problem be addressed immediately by officials

Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey called on the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services to immediately address the overcrowding at the Sarnia Jail before there is an incident leading to injury, or even death. Presently the Sarnia Jail is operating at 145% capacity despite plans to close the facility by or before 2014. According to [...]

Bailey, McNaughton take posts as area MPPs

MPP Bob Bailey Sworn In Oct282011

As of Friday (Oct. 28), it was official: Bob Bailey is once again Member of Provincial Parliament, representing Sarnia-Lambton at Queen's Park. Also sworn in was newly elected MPP for the Lambton-Kent-Middlesex riding, Monte McNaughton. MPP Bailey was joined by family, friends and a large group of supporters who made the three hour bus trip [...]

“Wright to the Point” tonight at 7 pm on TVCOGECO

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Newly re-elected MPP Bob Bailey will be among the guests tonight on “Wright to the Point” on TVCOGECO. Veteran journalist Barry Wright will also welcome Dave McPhail, the chairman of the local Save the Jail Committee and Tom Marshall of the Sarnia Fire Rescue Service who will talk about Fire Safety Week.   “Wright to [...]