...I’ll put those corporations on notice that the raping and pillaging of Ontario through current energy prices will stop, and when we lower those prices, those hydro rates, you’ll see industry will be more attractive for investment for manufacturing here in Ontario.”

Granic Allen added ‘development of the Ring of Fire’ has become a cliche among politicians, but emphasized “I’m serious about it.”

The leadership candidate praised Sault MPP Ross Romano for his advocacy for the Sault and its need to benefit from the Ring of Fire’s development.

“People don’t get it in southern Ontario,” Granic Allen said.

“One job created from the Ring of Fire in the north will create probably 10 jobs in southern Ontario, and why Kathleen Wynne doesn’t understand that, I have no idea,” Granic Allen said, while adding she understands new road access to the Ring of Fire region needs to be developed in consultation with First Nations communities.

“We have to activate the Ring of Fire. We can’t just say it anymore. We just have to do it.”

Granic Allen has also been a vocal critic of a carbon tax on industries, advocated by former PC leader Patrick Brown, and the  cap and trade program already in effect under Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals.

“In Ontario we do not have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem,” Granic Allen said.

“I’m very clear about this. We will not have new taxation and no increase in taxation (if Granic Allen becomes premier). A carbon tax is not going to happen, and the cap and trade? Gone.”

She’s willing to challenge Ottawa on that, if necessary.

“If Justin Trudeau tries to force it on Ontario I will take him to court on jurisdictional grounds, and if he is still successful after that process, I’ll take our existing gas tax and change its name to carbon tax, but there will not be a new tax. Not now, not ever,” Granic Allen said.

Industries do, of course, pollute, and Granic Allen said she is aware of industrial pollution in Sault Ste. Marie.  

“We must be stewards of the environment, and after consulting with communities at the grassroots level and if we identify problems, then we will put policies in place to work with industries, not kill industries, but work with them to better their emissions ratings.”

Granic Allen stated Ontario, and Canada as a whole, is considered a ‘negative’ in carbon emissions globally, saying Canada spews out less than two per cent of worldwide industrial pollution in comparison to China and the U.S.

“Because of our forests we actually absorb and clean most of the world’s CO2. We’re doing very good on the carbon file…I look forward to working with industries, but it will not be done with taxes they simply don’t need.”...

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