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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Healthy Transportation Coalition<br>
<a href="http://healthytransportationcoalition.nationbuilder.com/">http://healthytransportationcoalition.nationbuilder.com/</a><br>
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Here's the full petition: <br>
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<b>Ottawa Needs a Low Income Transit Pass</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> the Council and the Transit Commission of the City of Ottawa<br>
110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Whereas, an affordable, inclusive and equitable transportation system helps ensure safe, healthy communities, people, and a strong economy; and</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Whereas, the municipalities of Cornwall, Guelph, Halton Region, Hamilton, Kingston, Peterborough, Waterloo and Windsor have all enacted low-income public transit passes;</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Therefore, we, the undersigned, ask that Mayor Jim Watson, Ottawa City Council, and the Transit Commission work together urgently to enact a low-income public transit pass in the nation’s
capital. The low-income public transit pass should be designed to benefit all people whose income is less than the Low-Income Cut-Off, as defined by Statistics Canada.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Notes: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/pick-choisir?lang=eng&p2=33&id=2060092"><span style="color:#2109F5">Low-Income Cut-Off (LICO)</span></a> is an income threshold below which a family
will likely devote a larger share of its income on the necessities of food, shelter and clothing than the average family. For example, in Ottawa, if a single person’s income is $23,861 before tax, they are considered low-income. If a family of four’s income
is $44,340 before tax, they are considered low-income.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">By signing this petition, I hereby acknowledge that this petition will become a public document at the City of Ottawa and that all information contained in it will be subject to the scrutiny
of the City, and will be publicly available. Questions about the collection and disclosure of personal information contained in this petition should be directed to the City Clerk, 110 Laurier Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, ON K1P 1J1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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