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need to invest our resources and energy,” he says. “It’s
built on the four pillars of sustainability: environmen-
tal, cultural, social, and economic. And under each
pillar it talks about how to strengthen our community
and what we need to do to strengthen neighborhoods,
how to create additional jobs, how to be open for busi-
ness, and how we’re marketing ourself as a great city
in North America.”
“So, we’re very much taking the leading edge,” Send-
zik continues. “On the environmental side, we have a
$50 million project that has been approved to build a
hydro-station on one of our major rivers. That’s going
to start construction in the next year, and that project,
alone will generate additional revenues for the city,
moving forward, that will be able to offset things like
property tax increases.
“Our next major push is to get a GO Train (Ontario’s
inter-regional transit system, linking Toronto to the
greater Toronto area and beyond.) “We’ve been push-
ing for a GO Train connection for the better part of the
last couple of years. We have a case in front of the
provincial government and our goal is to secure that
as a means to create the connection to employment
markets that will allow people to live in our community
and enjoy all the amenities that we have and, at the
same time, be able to go and work somewhere else,
then come back and raise a family.”
As St. Catharines continues on its path to becoming
