Like Really UOIT!!! By John Mutton

Regional Talk
By John Mutton      
Over the past 5 years, I have been proud and privileged to be able to recommend and steer philanthropic dollars to health care and academia. To the point of about 2 million dollars in each sector and much of it locally, has only gone to make a better health care and education system for us.
At UOIT we steered $200000 to two classroom donations, half a million to University Hospital for prostate cancer, 110k to Richmond Hospital Foundation for a lung box for children and those with asbestos poisoning and much, much more.
One of my big pushes has been in eliminating drinking and driving everywhere, we have been working with the province, the federal government on drug wipe technology and with many police departments, transit carriers and local contractors like Gay Company who have become the first Zero Tolerance Contractor in Durham Region. We have been working with Sheridan College and their equivalent to the Police Foundations course, putting on an assembly and bringing the industry experts from Alcohol Countermeasures Systems to cite their global campaign against drinking and driving heavily supported by Arrive Alive, MADD and SADD.
We believe that education and prevention is the key to saving lives.
I must say that in Durham Region I am VERY close concerned. We have had more DUI's by transit and school bus drivers than anywhere in the GTA. This led to a resolution by Pickering Councillor Maurice Brenner that was endorsed and passed by most Councils in Durham about demanding Alcolock devices be put on all public transit in Ontario.
What I will tell you right now is shocking. Durham College will not meet or discuss this issue, even over a social tea....shame. Especially when other colleges and Universities (ie UOIT locally) have met on this.
You can guarantee if I am successful in the Regional Municipal Election, I will bring everything I have in my power to the table to ensure all of Durham is doing what it can to PREVENT driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol and Durham College better reconsider their position.

Till next week...
John Mutton
President and CEO
Municipal Solutions - Energy and Infrastructure