CORNWALL, Ontario – Heather Megill is running as the Ontario Liberal candidate for the riding of Stormont, Dundas and South Glengarry in the June 7 provincial election. She said that she is running on a three-pronged platform aimed at improving long-term care, providing dignity of work and revitalizing the region.
She explained that issues like rural education are important to her. In 2016-2017, the Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) enacted a Pupil Accommodation Review, under which several rural schools were threatened with closure.
“I feel strongly that we need community schools,” said Megill in an interview with Seaway News.
She pointed to efforts made by the provincial Liberals to support rural funding, including a $1.39 million investment in the UCDSB, some of which they are using to build a new super-school in Cornwall.
She also championed her party’s policies on energy and the environment, claiming that the Ontario Liberals have cut electrical bills by 25 percent while in government and have pursued greener options.
“I believe in climate change and we have to re-tool for the future,” she said. “We need to get off of fossil fuels.”
She said that her and her party seek to build a better future for generations to come.
“As a teacher I’ve seen a lot of families come to me and say my life here is not what I wanted it to be, but I want my children to have opportunities that I didn’t have,” she said.
Megill has lived in SD&G for 27 years and loves that area and the cultural mosaic that she says thrives here.
She will be running against incumbent MPP Jim McDonell of the Progressive Conservative Party and Marc Benoit of the Provincial NDP.
