Other Polls 
 Online Poll
No Votes Yet
 Total Votes: 0


Comments   Add Your Own
pete  ( November 28, 2006)
I agree with Myron. We have to face the fact that building roads hundreds of kms to cut trees to pulp them, and then ship the paper 2,000 km to the nearest large population can't compete with a place growing fibre annually and harvesting it just kms from huge populations. It's like a wheat farmer in the Yukon competing with one in Saskatchewan.
john  ( November 28, 2006)
Even if the government drops electricity, what about the gas to ship the wood? Pulp is dead. We should be looking at value-added solid wood products. Thats something other countries can't compete with.
ironic  ( November 28, 2006)
Actually their policy is preserving it. Less trees cut, less environmental damage.
concerned  ( November 27, 2006)
Maybe it's time to get rid of our MP that has absolutely no pull at Queens park. The government doesn't want him to look good so we get shafted. And god help us if his party becomes majority again.
K. Petersen  ( November 27, 2006)
I get tired of blaming all our woes on the government. When was the last time someone stood up and said "I'm responsible, or we're responsible". Market-based industries come with high and lows, and every now and then the market corrects itself and weeds out the weak. It's not government's responsibility to subsidize the weak. People need to take responsibility, understand their employer's markets and the risks to them, and position themselves so that they have employment options should the market go in the tank. Anybody can go directly from high school to a unionized plant job, but that path rarely takes you safely to retirement. It's not Dalton's or ACI's role to plan careers for the residents of NW Ontario.
millwright  ( November 24, 2006)
The McGuinty liberals don't care about the north, but if the auto industry was in dire straits that would be totally different. They would not sit and rot like us in the north, with unfair electrical, fuel prices, 45,000 related jobs to the forestry sector gone and a killer highway that takes more lives than the 401. Too bad the local mill didn't say Chevrolet on the front wall, things would be much different. Oh and by the way our federal MP. what's his name? Where and the heck are you hiding? I hope the next election is soon.
Dave  ( November 24, 2006)
What's new! There hasn't been a provincial government in two decades that even cares about the north. If it doesn?t concern the GTA or "Golden Horseshoe", it isn't a priority.
This pack of clowns is no different. They don't understand the distances we travel, they don't understand our energy needs and they have nothing to offer us but more empty promises.
This pack of clowns is no different. They dont understand the distances we travel, they dont understand our energy needs and they have nothing to offer us but more empty promises.
Myron  ( November 23, 2006)
Global competition is destroying the industry in the north, not the government. Granted, they could be doing more to help, but the Ontario government did not build large modern high volume high-speed mills in Asia and South America nearer to low cost fibre sources and in low energy cost areas. Our industry can't compete globally anymore, that's the reality. You can blame the government for not saving it if you want, but if you blame them for causing it, you're part of the problem. Could your 1974 car compete with a modern hybrid, even with the government's help? We have older technology, higher energy costs, the world's highest labour costs, and environmental pressure up the ying yang. Don't blame the government for all of that, there's enough out there they do deserve blame for already...

Admin