The federal government should open the Canadian Constitution to provide more funding for municipal governments, says Carleton-Mississippi Mills NDP candidate Paul Arbour. “We’ve heard about the Constitution, and it needs to be fixed,” said Arbour during a debate at the Holiday Inn Select on Oct. 2.

Janet and Dave Carson have lived on Old Carp Road for 17 years, and used to have an empty field behind their single-family home. In the past few years, that field has been filled with new homes in Minto’s Morgan’s Grant subdivision, and now drainage issues have bubbled to the surface.