FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October
12, 2005
Rally against
provincial government plan to offload parole system to feds
TORONTO – Unionized Probation
and Parole Officers and employees of the Ontario Parole and
Early Release Board (OPERB) will rally at Queen’s Park
Thursday to protest a government plan to transfer
responsibility for Ontario’s provincial parole system to the
federal government.
Date: Thursday,
October 13, 2005
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Place: Queen’s Park, Legislative Building South end of front
lawn (at the statue of Sir John A. MacDonald)
OPERB staff and Ontario’s
Probation and Parole Officers are members of the Ontario
Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU).
Speakers at the rally will
include:
Leah Casselman
President, OPSEU
Garfield Dunlop MPP, Progressive Conservative Critic
for Community Safety and Correctional Services
Peter Kormos MPP, NDP Justice Critic
Gordon Longhi Probation and Parole Officer, President
OPSEU Local 263
Mark Stehlin Parole Officers Association of Ontario
