Doug Lewis
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"Douglas Grinslade "Doug" Lewis", Queen's Privy Council for Canada/PC, Queen's Counsel/QC, is a former Canada/Canadian politician.

A chartered accountant and lawyer by training, Lewis entered the Canadian House of Commons when he won the parliamentary seat/seat of Simcoe North, Ontario, as a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada/Progressive Conservative in the Canadian federal election, 1979/1979 federal election. In the short-lived government of Prime Minister of Canada/Prime Minister Joe Clark, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply and Services (Canada)/Minister of Supply and Services.

Re-elected in the Canadian federal election, 1980/1980 federal election that returned the Liberal Party of Canada/Liberals to power, Lewis moved to the Opposition (parliamentary)/opposition benches, serving first as Deputy House Leader from 1981 to February 1983, and then as Official Opposition (Canada)/Official Opposition House Leader until September 1983.

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One of the unfortunate things about the Internet is it has made everyone gratification-happy instantaneously. But we are not going to be able to get this done in Internet time.

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There are lots of people who say they want to do it and say they are willing to do it, not understanding the elections process and technology process. That's our biggest concern; it's how do we get there? Right now, the truth is, we don't have enough answers.

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We don't expect the students to come up with the final design. This is more for stimulating discussion and raising awareness about what we want to see in the roundabout and how we're going to get it there.

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This was the heart of the European community when this area was settled. This is a prime site that calls for public art.

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You've always got a monumental chore on your hand.

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We're having to go through a tough transition. For whole lot of people, there is a comfort level in having paper to go back to. It's difficult for someone to track this electronically, rather than on paper.

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We were going to find that elections were manipulated wildly and regularly. Yet there was never any proof that that happened anywhere in America.

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Election administrators have never been through (this) amount of change. It would be an absolute miracle if we don't have hiccups.

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