Ukraine leaders eager to talk trash while in Westman
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This article was published 28/05/2013 (4686 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A delegation of Ukrainian mayors, deputy mayors and other community leaders stopped in Brandon this week as part of a cross-country tour.
The group hopes to learn more about the country’s waste management programs, economic development strategies and public/private partnerships.
“(Waste management) is a big problem in Ukraine now,” said Viktoriia Gryb, manager of corporate social responsibility with DTEK Company, which is the largest privately owned energy company in Ukraine.
“During former Soviet Union, during those times we didn’t have a lot of goods, like plastic packages and now we do … We really don’t know how to deal with that stuff because we have more and more garbage in our cities and those landfills … the expiration date will come very soon.”
While in Westman, the nine delegates toured Brandon’s waste water facility, Maple Leaf Foods and Virden’s hazardous waste landfill.
The group is also interested in learning about inter-municipal co-operation.
“Cities working together to solve their common problems,” said Alexander Kucherenko, director of municipal local economic development in the city of Kyiv.
“We learned the story of how Maple Leaf came to Brandon. All our cities … are interested in how to make their territory attractive for a big investment and how you develop a public/private partnership.”
The tour is part of a program through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, funded through the Canadian International Development Agency.
As part of the same program, Mayor Shari Decter Hirst travelled to Ukraine in 2011 for a gender equality forum.
“It was important because the gender equality is a sensitive issue for Ukraine,” Kucherenko said. “Mayor Decter Hirst shared her opinion and her view how you involve women in political participation.”
Decter Hirst said it was great to be able to host a group of Ukrainian delegates in the Wheat City for the second time.
“It’s been very good because mayors … even though we have very different realities in terms of regulatory environments, and culture and language, at the end of the day the job is pretty much the same,” she said.
Decter Hirst said she has talked to them about Maple Leaf Foods, WestJet, Walmart, other development and working with neighbouring municipalities, but for them to “see it helps them understand it.”
The Ukrainian delegation will also spend time in Winnipeg and Vancouver on their two-week tour.
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