Attracting tech staff in a worldwide financial system means offering a lovely group – full of bushes and with entry to public inexperienced areas. That is what Kanata has been for a lot of a long time.
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Le Citoyen invited candidates for the October 24 municipal election to share their ideas:
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As a trainer, I’ve at all times tried to assist college students see how interconnected all the pieces is. As Kanata North Councillor, I additionally attempt to assist individuals perceive how issues they may not assume are associated to one another actually are.
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How does Kanata North Tech Park relate to saving Kanata Lakes Golf Course? How is improved well being outcomes associated to each? How does stopping golf course improvement improve metropolis income? Let’s examine if I can assist join the dots.
Many individuals do not understand that the Kanata Lakes Golf Course is a golf course for six months of the yr and the equal of a public park for six months of the yr. With open and accessible inexperienced areas, individuals can stroll, snowshoe, ski, and trip the paths within the evenings and after the golf season ends. It is good for the bodily and psychological well being of Kanata residents. And that is what attracts individuals to stay in Kanata.
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When corporations within the tech park attempt to appeal to individuals to work at one of many 540+ tech corporations within the tech park, individuals must weigh different locations all over the world (which can have hotter climate!) towards what we have now to supply in Kanata/Ottawa. Folks wish to stay in inexperienced, tree-lined locations with entry to public inexperienced areas.
Inexperienced areas have been what have drawn individuals to Kanata for a lot of a long time. Because of this, the Tech Park has grown, bringing in billions of {dollars} in income to Ottawa and Canada. As jobs have been created, homes have been constructed, and property tax revenues additionally elevated. Ottawa as a complete has turn out to be a hub for tech start-ups.
That status lives on at the moment as increasingly more international corporations transfer into our Tech Park.
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At this time, expertise attraction is more and more changing into a worldwide problem. Firms with robust environmental insurance policies of their dwelling nation desire to increase in nations/cities with equally robust environmental insurance policies. The extra we have now, as a neighborhood and as a metropolis, to supply entrepreneurs and households when it comes to stunning, inexperienced and wholesome locations to stay and lift households, the extra we appeal to competent, certified and proficient individuals to the roles of our expertise sector.
Sadly, the entire situation of constructing homes on our inexperienced areas, together with the destruction of our forests, arose as a result of an organization determined that despite the fact that it had signed an settlement in full data of the “40 %” to maintain the land as a golf course and public inexperienced house ceaselessly, she determined she didn’t wish to be part of the deal.
As Sir Terrance Matthews aptly factors out when he talks to me and all of us about this subject, it is not about golf. It is a query of integrity. Integrity is what Kanata was constructed on. I intend to make sure that the foundations are maintained.
