Thanks TM for sebnding that letter. It got me to do also. We need a constant barrage of any and all politicians and on occasional a letter to the media to grease the wheels for the Ring.

From: <Exxxxx@yahoo.com> To: vic.fedeli@pc.ola.org
Ring of Fire, Northern Ontario Monday, May 4, 2015 7:07 AM

I have read, on the internet forum for Noront Resources, a letter to you regarding the apparent stalemate in the Ring of Fire and want to add my comments.

Too many and too often politicians and media have been saying what a great discovery has been the "Ring of Fire' in Northern Ontario but little and too slowly has been done to make it possible. Talk is cheap but results require work.

I am an investor of many years in Noront Resources, among others in the Ring, and from my perspective not enough results over that time have been achieved with respect to progressing the region through agreements with native communities and mining permits.

I can understand if the local natives are demanding too much, and whether entitled, in the opinion of Ontario government and that is the stalemate on that aspect, but leadership means establishing compromises in difficult situations.

From the Ontario government side an excuse is made that there is not enough money available now to fund necessary infrastructures, mainly an all year road to the Ring. Money is a matter of priorities. Ontario government can find money for Toronto but not for northern Ontario, and I am a southern Ontarian from outside of Toronto.

I notice you are a financial critic so I ask, would not a dollar invested in the Ring not provide greater returns to the government than same dollar put into an extended transit system in Toronto?
Yes I am much aware that it is more a matter of where the votes are. But that is politics and I am writing about physical practicality. That money flow can not always be in the direction of votes. Northerners deserve a fair break.

I am not from your district and rarely voted conservative in Ontario but if I am asking for help from you then what can be said about most other Ontarians?

Not enough is being reported to the public on progress that may be made. This is a public matter and even if most of the public is unaware or not interested, that information should be available to all those who are interested in knowing, irrespective of politics. Hence not a matter to be achieved behind closed doors.

If public does not know then how can they make their opinion known? If public can not state it's opinion than how can a politician represent a constituent?

Thank you for your consideration Edward G, ( Exxxxx@yahoo.com ) presently from Europe.