"Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty speaks about his government's accomplishments since 2003, at a Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 at the Italian Cultural Centre on Algoma Street. But the Liberal leader said he plans to hold those discussions behind closed doors."

“I’m sure you can understand I’m not going to have that conversation to them through you,” McGuinty said to reporters on Thursday afternoon, after delivering a half-hour campaign-style speech, with little specifically tailored to Northwestern Ontario, to community leaders at the Italian Cultural Centre.

“To do that would be disrespectful to them. But you can understand it’s one of many issues that I look forward to, through the Ministry of Energy and through our government, sitting down with them and talking about a whole range of opportunities here.”

Cliffs is one of the leading mining companies involved with the Ring of Fire project, a multi-billion dollar mineral deposit that houses one of the world’s largest chromite reserves. The Cleveland-based company has dangled up to 1,300 jobs in front of the province’s eyes, but last month threatened to pull up to 500 potential positions out of Ontario.

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