About the Eastern Ontario Wardens' Caucus
Since its inception, the Eastern Ontario Wardens' Caucus (EOWC) has worked to support and advocate on behalf of the property taxpayers across rural Eastern Ontario. The EOWC covers an area of 45,000 square kilometres from Cobourg to the Quebec border, and includes 13 upper-tier and single-tier municipalities as well as 90 local municipalities.
All these member municipalities work together as a team, researching important issues, advocating for our 750,000 residents, and striving to ensure that conditions are in place to make Eastern Ontario the greatest place in the world to reside and do business.
The EOWC endeavours to speak with one voice, ensuring that our views are heard and considered by federal and provincial policy makers, business leaders, the media and the public.
The EOWC's priorities for 2018 are tightly focused on improving infrastructure and connectivity, growing the regional economy, and reducing municipalities' operational costs. Among other strategies, the EOWC endeavours to do this by:
- advocating for the improvement of cellular networks in order to ensure mobile broadband services and increased public safety across rural Eastern Ontario's many communities; and
- continuing to implement the region's economic development strategy, through the Eastern Ontario Leadership Council.