Remembering Jim Tovey

2018

Mississauga City Councillor Jim Tovey dedicated his work to the growth and development of Port Credit, and championed the creation of a vibrant community in our city. Always smiling and a great supporter of the arts, Tovey’s bright personality and commitment to Mississauga did not go unnoticed. We pay tribute to him in this short video.

Thank you for your service, Jim, we’ll remember you.Mississauga City Councillor Jim Tovey dedicated his work to the growth and development of Port Credit, and championed the creation of a vibrant community in our city. Always smiling and a great supporter of the arts, Tovey’s bright personality and commitment to Mississauga did not go unnoticed. We pay tribute to him in this short 

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Jim’s an artist himself he plays guitar

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om sings he sings yeah it was fun

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that was her little axe

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so how do you like being the councillor

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for credit oh it’s great it’s great

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we’ve got an incredibly engaged

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community everybody works really hard we

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have the largest volunteer base of any

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Ward in the city and we have we’ve got

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all the festivals we’ve got the

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waterfront

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we’ve got arts we’ve got cultures the

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center of Arts and Culture it’s our

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culinary culinary destination place plus

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the music I mean we’ve got everything

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for credit why wouldn’t why would you

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love it my wife was a dance teacher yeah

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I guess I’m freeform okay three four but

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I love dancing it’s fun

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nice I do I do a pretty good moonwalk oh

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yeah they determined that the cerebral

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cortex requires visual stimulation every

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three seconds or we get bored so that’s

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why when you go into a second-hand store

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you like you just kind of wander around

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involve Wow half an hour’s gone by so

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and when you think about really

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interesting public spaces there’s always

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stuff going on everywhere right so

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that’s what we’re now creating with Port

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Credit and that’s just gonna keep adding

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to to this eclectic mix of of just great

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culture great entertainment great food

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and great art do you know how tap

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dancing came to be no oh okay okay this

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is a good quick story when the Irish

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first came to North America they were

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living in the same neighborhoods as as

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people from Africa so the the Africans

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taught the Irish people the African

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rhythms and the Irish taught the African

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people Irish step-dancing

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and that’s how Tapia that’s how we got

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tap dancing

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so you get this incredible fusion of two

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really interesting cultures to create a

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brand new art form that is totally

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unique to North America and that’s the

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kind of that’s kind of opportunity that

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we have right now in Canada

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like his comedy if you don’t have a

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sensing here not gonna get through the

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day anymore

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