Swimming pool project: “I am disappointed by the lack of transparency and equity in this issue” – Jean-Pierre Landry

Swimming pool project: “I am disappointed by the lack of transparency and equity in this issue” – Jean-Pierre Landry

In an open letter published in the Pontiac Journal today, Campbell’s Bay resident and Councillor Jean-Pierre Landry published a text entitled “Une piscine? Oui mais…” (A Pool? Yes, but…).

In the letter, Mr. Landry says he wants to denounce the absurdities reported by the MRC Pontiac Warden Jane Toller. He blames her for Fort-Coulonge being selected as the location and not Campbell’s Bay. The article states that a study done in 2010 by the firm Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton on behalf of the MRC had suggested Campbell’s Bay as the ideal location. He also brought his argument to locate the pool in Fort-Coulonge a few times against Mme. Toller. The Warden argued that the pool project was to be established in Fort-Coulonge since it was one of the poorest communities in the region. Jean-Pierre Landry states that it is not the role of the MRC to subsidize a municipality that is having difficulties.

He concluded the letter by saying that he was disappointed by the lack of transparency and fairness in this matter, but that he fully agreed that the Pontiac MRC needs infrastructure projects to attract people to settle in the region.