Vic, can you see the future of the North slipping away? You have two Conservative allies on the southeastern fringe of Northern Ontario.
Could you bring in John Yakabuski of Renfrew-Nipissing- Pembroke and Norm Miller form Parry Sound- Muskoka? If you can, the battle is won.
The Liberal minister of Northern Development and Mines would have to join or look like a traitor. To the North. That would make it an all-party project.