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August 25, 2009

MASSE CHALLENGES PROVINCE TO REACH CONSENSUS WITH CITY ON ACCESS ROUTE: Province must take advantage of 50 percent federal funding of Border Access Route

WINDSOR, ON- Today, Brian Masse, M. P. (Windsor West) and NDP Industry, Automotive, and Border Critic, challenged the Province of Ontario to reach consensus with the City of Windsor on the access route to the new border crossing.

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August 19, 2008

MASSE DEMANDS TRANSPORT MINISTER FUND TRUCK FERRY PROJECT

Windsor, On- Today, Brian Masse, Member of Parliament (Windsor West) and NDP Industry, Automotive, and Border Critic, wrote a letter to the Minister of Transport, John Baird, demanding he intervene and fulfill the federal government’s commitment to fund 50 percent of Windsor Detroit Truck Ferry Improvement project.
See letter below. Masse is available for comment

IDNUMBER 200908150028
PUBLICATION: The New York Times
DATE: 2009.08.15
EDITION: Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Business/Financial
PAGE: 1
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTOS: James Balsillie, left, and Michael Lazaridis, co-chiefexecutives of Research in Motion, say Nortel's patents should stay in Canada.(PHOTOGRAPH BY MIKE CASSESE/REUTERS) ; Nortel's Carling campus in Ottawa. Once Canada's largest company, Nortel is now bankrupt and its businesses are shrinking.(PHOTOGRAPH BY BLAIR GABLE/REUTERS)(B5) ;
DATELINE: OTTAWA
BYLINE: IAN AUSTEN

PUBLICATION: The Chronicle-Herald
DATE: 2009.08.15
SECTION: Front
PAGE: A1
BYLINE: Patricia Brooks Arenburg Staff Reporter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 14, 2009

NDP Demands Canadian Auto Consumer’s “Right to Repair” their vehicles: Advocating legislation to ensure choice and fair competition continues in the auto service sector

August 12, 2009

Honourable David Caplan,
Minister of Health
Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario
M7A 1A2

Dear Minister Caplan,

I am writing you today concerning the opening of a branch of the Ontario Addiction Treatment Centre (OATC), a private for profit medical corporation, in the City of Windsor. This new development has created significant concern in the community and raised serious questions that need to be addressed.

August 6, 2009

Honourable Peter Van Loan
Minister of Public Safety
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON

Dear Minister Van Loan,

I am writing you today concerning the deployment of a fixed placed surveillance balloon in Port Huron, Michigan which is causing significant public consternation and raising important privacy and sovereignty issues.

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JULY 28 2009

CONSERVATIVES MUST KEEP CANADIAN TECHNOLOGY IN CANADA
NDP demands that sale of Canadian Telecom Company Nortel be halted

OTTAWA – The federal government must immediately stop the sale of Nortel’s assets to the Swedish company Ericsson, says New Democrat Leader Jack Layton.

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JULY 23, 2009

GOVERNMENT OBLIGED TO PROTECT PUBLIC INTEREST IN NORTEL TAKEOVER: Investment Canada Act requires review to ensure net benefit to Canada

WINDSOR - The government must live up to its obligations under the Investment Canada Act to protect the public interest and national security in the fire sale of Nortel wireless assets, say New Democrat Industry Critic Brian Masse and Ottawa-Centre MP Paul Dewar.

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JULY 16, 2009

KENNEY ADDS TO TROUBLING TUMBLE IN TOURISM: Visa decision worsens tourism industry woes

OTTAWA – The number of Mexican tourists visiting Canada in May dropped by 25 percent from a year earlier, an alarming decline that will only accelerate because of the new visa requirements imposed this week, said New Democrat Industry and Border Critic Brian Masse.