Concerned shopper to Leadman: vote for produce labelling and strong retail in West Wellington
This month city council will be considering a bylaw that would make it mandatory for outdoor market produce vendors to properly label their fruits and vegetables as to place of origin.
According to a Hickory Street resident who agreed to make his letter to Councilor Leadman public, the bylaw has clear implications for both the Parkdale Market and surrounding retailers.
Councilor Leadman:
I live in your ward at 167 Hickory Street and strongly support bylaws to identify local content at the Byward and Parkdale markets.
I used to shop at the Parkdale Market, but no longer do for this very reason – making the weekly trek to the local farmers market at Lansdowne instead.
If this bylaw passes and local produce is clearly identified at the Parkdale Market, we shall be spending our money at the Parkdale Market once again – which also means supporting other area retailers while we are there.
I urge you to support strong and enforceable bylaws identifying local content.
The piece of the puzzle still missing is to have bylaws favour organic producers thus reducing the amount of pesticides our children are ingesting.
Bruce Tate
Hickory Street
If Oracle readers would like to add their voices to the debate Councilor Leadman can be reached at christine.leadman(at sign)ottawa.ca
I’m not going to make a big deal out of this, but a few times this year, I noticed parkdale vendors smoking cigarettes inside their tent(with the fruit and veggies). If we’ve created by-laws about people smoking inside restaurants, there should be no reason why these vendors are smoking in these areas.
Here here Bruce! I shop locally, and have skipped the Parkdale Market (to which I live throwing distance to) in favour of taking my business elsewhere for this same reason. Good on you.
Ms. Leadman, are you listening?