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By Danielle Pitman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, OrilliaMatters.com An advocacy group in Ramara, requesting that Lake Country Airways aerodrome at The Cape Resort be shut down until federal authorities conduct a safety review, wants the township to step aboard. Jen Dundas, spokesperson for the group who started the change.org petition and executive director of Camp Couchiching, stood before council on Monday. She was joined by neighbours and residents, both in person and virtually, who live near the Lake Country Airways\u2019 operations on Rama Rd. The group made quick work following parliamentary parameters for a paper petition, which Simcoe North MP Adam Chambers brought to the House of Commons last week. Citing serious gaps in the ways aerodromes are regulated in Canada, Dundas asked Ramara to support an independent safety review… <\/p>\n

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By Danielle Pitman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, OrilliaMatters.com An advocacy group in Ramara, requesting that Lake Country Airways aerodrome at The Cape Resort be shut down until federal authorities conduct a safety review, wants the township to step aboard. Jen Dundas, spokesperson for the group who started the change.org petition and executive director of Camp Couchiching, stood before council on Monday. She was joined by neighbours and residents, both in person and virtually, who live near the Lake Country Airways\u2019 operations on Rama Rd. The group made quick work following parliamentary parameters for a paper petition, which Simcoe North MP Adam Chambers brought to the House of Commons last week. Citing serious gaps in the ways aerodromes are regulated in Canada, Dundas asked Ramara to support an independent safety review... <\/p>\n

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