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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Devon Lomax, Political Director of District Council 9 International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
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Devon Lomax, representing District Council 9 of the Painters and Allied Trades Union, expresses strong support for the Queen's Future/Metropolitan Park project. He emphasizes the importance of unionized careers for community members and the positive impact the project would have on workers' livelihoods.
- Lomax highlights that the project would create unionized careers, not just jobs
- He stresses the economic importance of the project for union members and their families
- Lomax expresses opposition to Council Member Moya's suit against the project
Devon Lomax
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Good afternoon.
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Thank you for having me, chair, all the council members here.
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My name is Devon Lomax.
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I'm the political director at District Council nine.
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We're the Painters and Allied Trades Union representing over 12,000 men and women in the finishing trades.
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And we come in in complete support of this project to for Queen's future in Metropolitan Park for this eulip process.
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You know, our members live in the community.
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And earlier speaker says something about what jobs.
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It's not, you know, what jobs.
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It's not about jobs.
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It's about unionized careers.
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And that's what Metropolitan Park are is proposing for this project, and that's why we support it.
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We're you know, we're living in uncertain times and in in the construction industry, if we don't work, we don't get paid.
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If our members don't work, they can't feed their families.
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They can't send their kids to college.
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And this project is gonna, help them succeed in that.
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And that's why we are, in complete support of this project.
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And I personally am in complete opposition of council member Moya's suit.