Dear Editor,
I wanted to bring your readers’ attention the great turnout on Nov. 5, in Shawville at an evening consultation with Canada’s first ever federal Minister for Seniors, Filomena Tassi.
Thank you to Café 349 for hosting approximately 50 Pontiac constituents, including a number of mayors and MRC Pontiac Warden, Jane Toller. The consultation lasted 90 minutes.
After the meeting in Shawville, Minister Tassi joined me for a visit with the residents, staff and board members at St. Joseph’s Manor in Campbell’s Bay. The Minister invited questions from the residents and related a story about her father and upbringing in Hamilton, Ont., the city she represents in the House of Commons.

I am proud to call Minister Tassi my colleague and I know that she is committed to addressing the issues raised by seniors in the Pontiac. I’d like to thank the following individuals for their great questions for our minister on issues of public interest:

1. Albert Armstrong – seniors housing and the Villa James
Shaw project;

2. Mrs. Renaud – health care
services and wait times;

3. Jane Toller – Shawville Hospital
and regional health facilities;

4. Jerome Sallafranque – seniors
transportation, isolation,
challenges of accessing
government services via internet
access;

5. Muriel Davies – Women’s
Wellness Network and support
for motivated, active seniors
living;

6. Tom Healey – medically-assisted
dying and the evolution of federal
law to better enable
predetermination;

7. Karen Kelly – measures to
address fraud and elder abuse;

8. Arnaud de la Salle – support for
caregivers and the Health
Canada-funded “Connexions
Resource Centre”;

9. Carl Hager – infrastructure
investments required for seniors
including housing;

10.Winston Sunstrum – promoting
volunteerism and supporting
seniors living in poverty.

William Amos
MP for Pontiac