Letter to the editor
The Liberals again are stripping more jobs from Northern Ontario. Approximately 44 jobs are being sent to Cornwall from the North Bay office of the Crown Corporation Ontario Power Generation. That being said, Kathleen Wynne has gone on record several times stating we are “One Ontario”. With the constant robbing of good careers/jobs and industries from Northern Ontario it is showing what we have been saying. “We are not one Ontario.”
We are but 2 Ontario’s made up of a Northern Ontario and a Southern Ontario. We are already treated as a Legislature of Southern Ontario’s provider. Whenever, the good career jobs or resources are needed in Southern Ontario the government/party in power quickly robs them from Northern Ontario to give it to Southern Ontario.
This is not the only time this has occurred and not only that they are trying to sneak them out without announcement, discussion or even a consultation.
As leader of the Northern Ontario Party I am demanding that instead of robbing Northern Ontario and making it more of a barren wasteland and continuous over population of Toronto that the Legislature builds Northern Ontario. You want to claim we are ‘ONE ONTARIO’ then it should be so.
If you cannot provide to the North or even invest where the money came from to build Downtown Toronto then let us have our referendum vote of the Northern Ontarians once and for all and do not fight the results but support them. Think of it if we are such a loss or burden to the south then why keep us let us free. Who better to run Northern Ontario than the honest not corrupt Northern people who are not forced to back a Toronto based political party.
To date the jobs that have and are being lost in the North due to cuts or Southern Ontario relocation are in the thousands to tens of thousands over the last 20 years. We look at sale of Ontera, closure of Natural Gas plants, OPG, News jobs, hospital and health care cuts and the relocation of the Laundry jobs from Sudbury to Toronto.
In closing how can we be One Ontario when the only “Ontario” is Toronto. Northern Ontario should be invested in and not pillaged from to benefit Toronto only.
WE ARE SICK OF TORONTO AND THE LEGISLATURE TREATING ALL NORTHERN ONTARIO AT THEIR OWN DISPOSAL.
Trevor Holliday
Northern Ontario Party Leader
