Patrick Lam

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Submission to Ontario's Proposed Amendments to the Greenbelt Plan

Stop trying to mess with the GTA Greenbelt!

Posted by Patrick Lam on Thursday, November 24, 2022

Submission to NZ inquiry on inter-regional passenger rail

NZ needs inter-regional passenger rail as an alternative to flying and driving for climate and other reasons. Here’s my submission to a Parliamentary inquiry, with comparisons to Canada and Switzerland.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Saturday, September 17, 2022

Answers to NZ Government consultations on Adventure Activities

Following the White Island eruption, the New Zealand Government is soliciting comments on the regulation of adventure activities. Here’s what I wrote.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Letter to Canadian ministers about reducing emissions.

I’m writing as a constituent to urge Canada to take action on climate change. The recent release of the IPCC report highlights the necessity of doing what we can to fix this human-caused problem. We need to take action now as a society, and the government needs to take a leading role: this problem requires collective action, and we as individuals do not have the power to solve it on our own.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Sunday, August 15, 2021

Letter to Minister Bardish Chagger

Letter to Minister Bardish Chagger My parents Dear Minister Chagger, I am writing to you as one of your constituents. I know that multiculturalism is important to you from your past involvement with the KW Multicultural Centre. Given yesterday’s deplorable news from the United States about a ban on Syrian refugees, we in Canada absolutely must take up the slack as best we can. I understand that we’re accepting a number of Syrian refugees already; way less than Germany, but more than the US, and that this number continues to increase and is slated to be higher in 2017 than in 2016.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Thursday, January 28, 2016

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Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo; patrick.lam@uwaterloo.ca

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