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New Fedeli constituency office to go all digital

'We will be one of the first all-digital MPP offices in the province'

Vic Fedeli had a lot of praise for all those who helped get his constituency office moved and back in operation quickly. 

"We were in here on January 6," said Fedeli. 

The Nipissing MPP lost the use of his Main Street location due to water damage sustained during the huge downtown fire on December 20, which started two storefronts down from his office.

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Fedeli held a media event at his new Main Street location just two doors down from the North Bay & District Chamber of Commerce office. 

As part of his renovations, Fedeli plans to put up a photo of the firefighters in action, to help recognize their efforts and honour the tragedy. 

(Check our photo gallery above)

"It starts with the firefighters. When I came down the night of the fire and saw the work they had ahead of them," recalled Fedeli.  

"You look about eight hours later I took a photo which I am going to be putting in this office. It is a photo of the firefighters, they are relentless. The photo was taken at 7:30 in the morning and they had been at it for more than seven hours and they are still in puddles of water fighting this fire and knocking it down. It was really relentless, it would not go away."

Fedeli says due to the incident, his new office will not require any new filing cabinets. He says the new office will use an all-digital file system instead.  

"Our government has talked about a digital strategy," said Fedeli.  

"We will be one of the first all-digital MPP offices in the province and that is going to be one of the benefits or, one of the good things that came out of that tragedy.

"So our electronic files we did have backed up - we back up every week in Toronto, but we will no longer have paper files. Everything will be scanned every week and stored digitally so that is going to really modernize our office and hopefully save a lot of money - it will certainly save a lot of paper."

Fedeli also feels for the residents in the apartments impacted by that downtown blaze. 

"We lost files, they lost their homes," said Fedeli. 

"They are a great group of people, I had seen them and interacted with them since I was in that former office location for about eight years so you know a few of them. This is traumatic to them. A couple of them, they were just sort of getting their life back together and getting settled and then a tragedy like that really, really disrupts them far more than anybody else."


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