"Vive le Ontario Nord libre!"
How fast would the Ring of Fire be developed in a Northern Ontario that was a separate province? In my youth in the mid-1970s, I was sympathetic to Northern Ontario Heritage Party.
Ed Deibel, a North Bay businessmen, unsuccessfully tried to separate from the South in order to establish “social, economic and cultural justice” for the people of northern Ontario.
In a separate province, we would not have southern Ontario ENGOs dictating resource policy. (While I live in Toronto, I will always be a northerner!)
There was never a vote in northern Ontario about joining the south. It was just a Queen's Park version of Manifest Destiny.
http://www.republicofmining.com/2016/02/05/make-northern-ontario-a-separate-province-online-petition-cbc-news-sudbury-february-4-2016/
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