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Mayor Dan Carter

Oshawa Mayor - ON

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Rating Comments: In October 2021, Mayor Carter stated his sensible opposition to controversial plans by various municipalities to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. The scheme is apparently designed to reduce the exploding opioid crisis in many Canadian cities by making these drugs more easily available to addicted persons. (See Quotes tab).

Position: Mayor
First elected (yyyy.mm.dd): 2018.10.22
Previous Occupation: Durham Regional Councillor
Percentage in last election: 64.9% (2022), 69.39% (2018)
Victory margin last election: 43.3% (2022), 58.01% (2018)
Religion / Faith: unknown

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Parliamentary Office
City of Oshawa
1st Flr, West Wing, City Hall - 50 Centre Street South
Oshawa, Ontario
L1H 3Z7
Tel: 905-436-5611
Constituency Offices
1st Flr, West Wing, City Hall - 50 Centre Street South
Oshawa, Ontario
L1H 3Z7
Tel: 905-436-5611

Here is Dan Carter's voting record relating to life and family issues:

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Here are quotes from Dan Carter on various life and family issues:

Explaining his principled opposition to legalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs in order to somehow reduce the drug abuse problem:  "It's something that I do not support... So we're going to allow individuals that are selling drugs to continue to sell drugs? To be able to provide their poison to these individuals, and we're going to continue to see people die on the streets? I just can't see where that works." [Global News, "Opioid crisis: What decriminalization could mean for Durham Region", October 1, 2021]

Here are the answers for the questionnaire as provided by Dan Carter on August 9, 2022.

Question Response
Organizations like Planned Parenthood (PP) routinely counsel women to have abortions. Given that abortion is a controversial practice that many taxpayers in your municipality find abhorrent, do you agree that PP and similar “sexual health agencies" should not receive taxpayer funds through the municipality? No response
Do you acknowledge that human life begins at conception (fertilization)? No response
Do you consider yourself pro-life or pro-choice? No response
There has been a move in some municipal jurisdictions to pass bylaws which establish censorship zones, also called “bubble zones”, around abortion facilities. These unconstitutional censorship zones make it illegal to express peaceful pro-life speech, including silent prayer, on taxpayer-owned public sidewalks within the vicinity of abortion facilities and pharmacies which dispense abortion pills. If elected, would you vote to oppose such a censorship bylaw? No response

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